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The Poet Laurie

Ate

Ash James

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An exciting and serious story which is a work of fiction, but is inspired by the real life experiences of a
village policeman enlisted into the Military Police in First World War Cairo.
A novel which explores the universal and timeless themes of love, honour, trust and truth.
Set on the small island of Menorca and the huge Arab city of Cairo

Cairo, 1917. Thomas Laurie was much needed; a village policeman and honourable man, he kept the peace at
home, even in war. Yet driven by conscience and the stares of strangers, he`d entered an army enlisting office
in Worcester and jumped. Now, owned by King and country he was thousands of miles from those he loved,
holed up in a rat-infested carpet shop in a Cairo backstreet. Somewhere opposite within the gloom of a tired
hostel was the spy. He and Corporal Nooney would sort it, they always did. But still the doubts nagged: Mildred
Lowthian, his senior officer at the Arab Bureau was unlike any woman he`d known, but she too seemed
burdened by the duplicity of superiors. And the ignorance and disdain of those with power had shocked. Who
was he really helping?

At the same hour in her farmhouse on the Spanish island of Menorca, the formidable self-made landowner
Llucia Quintana sat fearing for the safety of Oriol, her only son and heir. His routine trading trip to Cairo was to
be his last; Mediterranean passage had become increasingly hostile and British control of the city
unpredictable. He`d not made contact; but how could she rely upon others for help given her past?

Ash James has always written, though other work came first. He has been a barman, postman and Deputy
Head of a Secondary School, for which he was paid, and variously a Music Promoter, Citizens Adviser,
Musician, Charity Fund Raiser, mini-Vicar, centre-page spread and Chair of Governors: for which he was
thanked. He is now free to graze his imagination and The Poet Laurie Ate is his first published novel.

Publication Date: 28th May 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805143826
Thema subject category: FV – Historical fiction
paperback 234 x 156 mm 408 pp Portrait Author location: West Midlands

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