Writers in Revolt (ePub)

Expatriate authors on the Costa Blanca set up the website of Left Bank to publish books on the Internet and print-on-demand. To Bertie's dismay, Jade refuses an offer of £20,000 for her historical saga. The insulted publisher ceases negotiation with another member of Left Bank for his crime series, and Tarquin takes his revenge on the Left Bank office.Hannah moves to Barcelona and meets a well-known but disenchanted fashion designer. Crispin gives up his high-profile career to become a bohemian artist. They are good friends but feel obliged to reveal their past to each other. Hannah is the mistress of a man she cannot marry for religious reasons, and Crispin has a genetic disability rendering him sterile. But Hannah's lover runs a gender clinic in England, and feels that new research could help Crispin.Damien works as a manservant to an expatriate author in Majorca. Lorna discovers that a diving accident giving him a severe case of the bends, brought his research at the Sorbonne to a halt. Lorna's niece Belinda says that because Damien is gay he knows nothing about straight love. If he is writing a stunning blockbuster, he must have sex with a woman. He feels angry and insulted.Through Left Bank website, the Majorca writers present eight publishers with a Magna Charta of the grievances of ignored authors. Damien is offered a managerial job in a hotel run by gays - but the friendship of these British writers is compelling.