Portuguese Pastoral (Fiction)
Portuguese Pastoral, the most recent novel by Janet Olearski, is available as a paperback (ISBN 978-989-53633-4-6) and an Ebook on Amazon.
Set in the rural heartland of Central Portugal, Portuguese Pastoral explores the themes of friendship, ageing, immigration, and the Portuguese Dream through the trials of a Covid year.
A Traveller’s Guide to Namisa (Fiction)
After the Arab Spring comes the Namisan Autumn-Autumn. Philip Blair, adventurer, international man of mystery, and procurement clerk, is ready to deal with anything in his journey towards the promise of a sweet posting in Paris or Rome.
Philip recruits Felicity, romance novelist on the rebound, to pose as his wife in order to secure a prestigious post as Officer of Education and Culture on the tropical island of Namisa. Within Namisan society, strong family values and the importance of morality are paramount. All is well and Philip’s secret is safe until he meets the manipulative Namisan academic Ito Bogadan and his mother Grace, matriarchal founder of Trinamisa University.
A Traveller’s Guide to Namisa is a story of misunderstandings, verb conjugations, love, mendacity, and PhDs.
The Book of Reasonable Women (Fiction)
The Book of Reasonable Women is a collection of contemporary short stories about women whose experiences make them resilient, unfazed, and practical, but also demanding, persistent, and determined. It illustrates both with humour and compassion the remarkable reasonableness of women.
A Brief History of Several Boyfriends (Fiction)
These twenty-five cautionary tales are a mixture of the traditional and the experimental. Sometimes sad, often tongue-in-cheek, always intriguing, they are an exploration of women’s experiences and emotions from naivety through to maturity, leading the reader through hostile cityscapes and natural landscapes, digging deeply into the universal themes of innocence, infatuation, resignation, identity, rebellion, revenge, and rebirth.
The Boy Who Never Smiled (Children’s Fiction)
At his school in Abu Dhabi, Sam gets the job of minding Rajiv, a new arrival who is seriously lacking in social skills. The task turns out to be more than he bargained for when Dev, the school bully, sets his sights on both Sam and Rajiv, with devastating consequences. But, as innocent as he is, Rajiv is about to surprise everyone.
Twins (Children’s Fiction)
Tim is determined to win the Arkwright Student of the Year award and take his mother on the First Prize trip to Disneyland Paris. He starts a Keep Arkwright Tidy campaign and everything is looking good until he and his friend William get into big trouble in the park.
How can Tim win the prize now? Maybe – just maybe – he can blame his mystery twin brother…
Mr Football (Children’s Fiction)
Gary is fifteen and he wants to become a professional footballer, just like his dad. When three students from Gary’s school get the opportunity to win a place at Crossbridge Football Academy, Gary automatically thinks he will be one of them. But things aren’t always as simple as they seem …
The Sunbird Mystery (Children’s Fiction)
Steven and his sister Laura travel to Africa in search of the legendary Sunbird, but someone with evil intentions is following them.