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COLD COFFEE IN AMSARA



       Andrew Goss




                                                                   ISBN 978-1-916668-30-0




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                                                                 Publication:   28  MARCH 2024
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                                                                 ISBN:           9781916668300
                                                                 Price:          £9.99
                                                                 Binding:        Paperback

                                                                 Format:         216 x 138 mm
                                                                 Extent:         304 pp
                                                                 Illustrated:  None
                                                                 Thema:          FBA Fiction


                                                                 Author location: Leicester

                                                                    •  A contemporary literary novel following an aid
                                                                        working in Eritrea, north-east Africa, following
                                                                        its protracted war with Ethiopia.
                                                                    •  John  hopes  to  lay  to  rest  the  ghosts  of  a
                                                                        previous mission in Pakistan, but also learns
                                                                        of  other  personal  losses  endured  by  his
                                                                        colleagues.
                                                                    •  The second in the author’s trilogy focusing on
                                                                        communities  less  fortunate  across  the
                                                                        developing world.
         Andrew Goss is a former print journalist, overseas aid worker and
         humanitarian reporter. His work has led him to travel across Europe,   When  traumatised  aid  worker  John  Cousins  arrives  in
         Africa and South Asia. His new novel, Cold Coffee in Asmara, is set   north-east  Africa  he  hopes  to  find  a  sense  of  personal
         in Eritrea, northeast Africa, following its protracted war with Ethiopia   peace among a gentle people rebuilding their lives following
         and is the second in a planned trilogy focusing on some of the world’s   a bitter and prolonged war. In Eritrea he begins to forget his
         poorest communities. He lives in Leicester with his partner Claire, a   own  emotional  pain  and  lay  to  rest  the  ghosts  of  his
         nurse and former aid worker.                            previous mission in Pakistan. Will the work with fellow aid
                                                                 worker and nurse Hannah Johnson help heal the scars?
                                                                 And what is the secret of her own past?

                                                                 Cold  Coffee  in  Asmara  is  a  story  of  personal  loss,
                                                                 redemption  and  love  set  against  a  backdrop  of
                                                                 humanitarian work in a remote corner of the world where
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