Marsons is a small publishing house. Originally it specialized in books about food. In recent years we have produced a children's picture book, two novels and a memoir.
We have two main authors and we are now proud to announce that they have worked together to produce the latest addition to our list: a wartime story of two girls. The new book by Judy Jackson and Monika Sears is now out.
Publication date 15 February 2019
EPISODES - two girls, two lives, one time
It is a true story, written in the voices of two children, covering the same period: the 2nd World War in Europe.
One is born in London and lives through the Blitz and blackout. The other suffers from Nazi persecution in Poland. EPISODES is an account of the first eleven years of their separate lives from 1939-1945, leading to how they meet in 1950 and continue a friendship which lasts for seven decades.
Available on Amazon Price £11.99 for the paperback book, £4.99 for Kindle
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Judy Jackson's second novel is SEXTET. Originally a food writer she has now turned to writing about the world of music. One of the themes in her first novel, The Camel Trail, was food-related and for this reason it won the World Gourmand Award for Best Food Literature Book in the UK in 2007.
SEXTET is not about food. It's about music, adultery and a dilemma. It's a story for our time and will appeal to those who are young, and those who have ever been young.
The book was launched at an event in London on 30th April, 2014. Judy Jackson was chosen as one of ten outstanding authors at the One Big Book Launch at the Free Word Centre. Read about it here
You can also see a one minute video, giving you a taste of what Sextet is about: watch it here.
Now, two years after publication SEXTET has also won an award. You can find out more here.
SEXTET is available in bookshops and on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions. Click here to read the first few chapters and to buy in USA or buy in UK.
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Our book for children, Lookit Cookit, is reaching a wide audience:
Lookit Cookit - kitchen games for curious children. A magical journey into the mysteries of cooking: with games, experiments and quiz questions.
The perfect present for any child over about 7. It will give them hours of fun and lead them into the exciting world of taste and colour.
Lookit Cookit costs £9.95 ($16.50) + postage
available from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk
Lookit Cookit has been nominated for a World Gourmand Cookbook award.
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Winner of the Gourmand award for Best Food literature book in the UK in 2007:
The Camel Trail is a family saga spanning more than a hundred and fifty years
The Levy family kept notebooks and accounts going back to 1840. The story of their lives is dotted with extracts from these journals, giving brief descriptions of the food they ate. As in real life, both happy and tragic events are often bound up with memories of family meals. For the Levys food was more than just a necessity; it was an integral part of their existence, of their place in society.
The Camel Trail is a startling first novel, based on a true story.
It is 1944. Anna Grant inherits a strange legacy from her mother, Dina: a treasure retrieved from a disaster in the Middle East, and a pile of yellowing notebooks . The handwritten pages hint at a world of elegant Victorian tables and lavish balls. Yet behind the apparent calm in the family lies a story of deception and betrayal.
Anna searches for the truth about her grandfather David Levy. What was the catastrophe that left him orphaned in 1837? What brought his seemingly happy marriage to the brink of collapse? She retraces journeys, following a trail from Safed to Gibraltar, from London to Lisbon. While Anna uncovers layers of joy and sadness, revealing the reason for her mother’s repressive behaviour, she copes with her own eccentric husband and the problems of bringing up a child in wartime Britain. But it is the final journey that unlocks the mystery of inherited misery. In her search for the origin of the treasure, Anna uncovers a secret that tormented David all his life.
The novel is an exploration of the author's roots - beginning in Safed in the 1830s and moving through Gibraltar, London and Lisbon. A set of authentic notebooks hints at the lives of David Levy and his family, though the intrigue and mystery surrounding his life is revealed gradually, ending in the discovery of a secret that affected the lives of three generations.
The Camel Trail was published in London on 1st March 2007. It is available to order from bookshops (ISBN 978-0-9517220-2-2) or from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com
The author is available for interview.
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