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The Birdcage

The Birdcage

by Clive Aslet (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

    $3.30
Synopsis

Salonika in 1916 is a city more than half-Jewish and, until a few months ago, one of the jewels in the Ottoman crown. It is now suddenly Greek. Nominally neutral, it is filled with French, British and Serbian soldiers defending it against the Austro-German and Bulgarian forces to the north. In a city seething with intrigue, cafe society continues unperturbed and the native inhabitants make from the soldiers what money they can. Young nurses from the Women's Hospital join seasoned soldiers, and Kite Balloonists must trade their traditional chivalry towards the enemy against the need to survive. In this sparkling tale, the spirits of Wodehouse and Waugh meet those of Biggles and R C Sherriff, and the sense of time and place is impeccably vivid and real. The breathless ride is just beginning

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 16 Jun 2016
ISBN 10: 1910985007
ISBN 13: 9781910985007
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Media Reviews
'A fabulous yarn...a twisty, pacy plot.'-The Times;'Aslet is an entertaining writer...he can tell a tale very engagingly.'-The Spectator;'Aslet writes superbly well, his prose touched with irony like Vermouth in a good martini...His mines, laid with such apparent artlessness, go off one by one as the book approaches its surprising and satisfying conclusion.'-Country Life;'While conflict and danger lurk a little way offstage, Aslet's cast of dreamers, adventurers and plotters put on a stylish and entertaining tragi-comic show.'-The Independent;'Aslet's elegant first novel captures the complexities of the period while telling a good yarn with verve and humour. '-Mail on Sunday;'Great look for Aslet's 1916 story set in Salonika, a nominally neutral city which is filled with French, British and Serbian soldiers... '-The Bookseller
Author Bio
Clive Aslet, former Editor of Country Life, and now its Editor at Large, is a prolific writer on Architecture, Style, the British way of life and issues related to the countryside. He was inspired to write The Birdcage, his first work of fiction, by research for his recent non-fiction book War Memorial, which opened the window on an almost-forgotten theatre of the First World War.