FAMILY is very much at the heart of author Anthony Etherington’s new thriller Some Other Eden.
After businessman Geoff Ward is kidnapped in Cairo, the lives of three families change forever.
It is the Kenilworth resident’s second novel, following debut novel, Europia, which was published in 2022.
He has also has written several teleplays and screen dramas, including Yellow Dragon and
the Red Fox, which won Best Screenplay awards at the European Independent Film Festival and the
International Film Festival of Wales in 2014.
Two of his short scripts – Flotsam and Gemma’s War – have been filmed and can be viewed on YouTube.
Anthony, who describes Some Other Eden as part kidnap thriller, part family drama, said: “Soon after leaving school, I worked on two farms in Israel and, ever since, have remained in touch with one of the families that employed me.
“More than three decades later I returned regularly to the Middle East, working as a self-employed contractor on various recruitment and people development projects in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Dubai.
“While abroad I observed that most of the people I met shared the same hopes and wants: good health for themselves and their families – a decent education and employment prospects for their children, and work that pays.
“Some Other Eden is, at heart, my attempt to give voice to the belief that we have far more in common than divides us.”
Anthony will be signing copies of Some Other Eden at TG Jones in WH Smith on Leamington’s Parade, on August 30 from 10am to 1pm.
