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| Frank Swales |
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Bio:
Having spent most of my life doing the husband/father thing I now find myself with an empty nest and lots of precious time to indulge in my two loves of writing and computing.Both my finished novels are based loosely on my experiences in South Africa during the apartheid years. I stress 'loosely' because my heroes break too many laws and step on too many establishment toes for me to be able to return to South Africa if the authorities there got the notion that what I had written was purely autobiographical. And I would love to see the republic again, even if only on holiday; one day, perhaps.
I'm about halfway through my third novel. Going by the mundane working title of 'The IT Society', the story is set in Britain in the next generation and centres on a young man who is looking for something unusual, and regrets finding it in the form of some extraordinary technology. With luck it should be finished at the end of next year.
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| Shadow Boxing |
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| Shadow-Boxing Leaves No Bruises
Genre: Adult Adventure
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Conflicting love and hostility play out against the backdrop of apartheid and street politics of South Africa's violent townships. Immigrant Acker loves drinking and flouting South Africa's strict immorality laws. He gets involved with Thoko, who makes a living by entrapping white men. Her controller is D-S Harrid of the SAP. Acker takes Thoko to Mama Poppie's Sowetan shebeen to escape Harrid's clutches but lands in a riot and is grabbed by gangsters, along with Poppie's husband. Both men are beaten; deals are offered for their lives. Thoko must decide which side she is on; will she pay the price demanded for Acker's life? Acker and Poppie play the ruthless gangster, Fats, against the political activist, Mokae. But the People's Council is adamant: someone must die. Will it be Poppie's husband, or the wild honky? Acker finds himself fighting on two fronts — against a tide of black hatred, and internal conflicts erupting from his emotionally raw past. Contains some bad language and explicit sex scenes.Conflicting love and hostility play out against the backdrop of apartheid and street politics of South Africa's violent townships. Immigrant Acker loves drinking and flouting South Africa's strict immorality laws. He gets involved with Thoko, who makes a living by entrapping white men. Her controller is D-S Harrid of the SAP. Acker takes Thoko to Mama Poppie's Sowetan shebeen to escape Harrid's clutches but lands in a riot and is grabbed by gangsters, along with Poppie's husband. Both men are beaten; deals are offered for their lives. Thoko must decide which side she is on; will she pay the price demanded for Acker’s life? Acker and Poppie play the ruthless gangster, Fats, against the political activist, Mokae. But the People's Council is adamant: someone must die. Will it be Poppie's husband, or the wild honky? Acker finds himself fighting on two fronts — against a tide of black hatred, and internal conflicts erupting from his emotionally raw past. Contains some bad language and explicit sex scenes.
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Substitutes
Genre: Adult Adventure
Take your average young working man from his familiar surroundings in England's industrial north and drop him into Paradise.
But Paradise has its dark side: it's called Apartheid. How will Ed Stranton cope with a society which cossets him, looks after his every material need, as long as he does, says and thinks only what is expected of him? Was Ed ready for South Africa in the Apartheid Era? How could he cope with the break-up of his young family; what would he do with his new freedom in the aftermath? A freedom which drove him across the colour bar and against the servants of the brutal regime. All he wanted was love, he thought. What he got was something much more. Get inside the head of a young man wrestling with waywardness, guilt, insecurity, and love in its many guises, all wrapped up in the rutting lust of a healthy young animal. The male reader will squirm with its home truths, and every woman will see her man in a new light. Contains some bad language and explicit sex scenes.
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