NEVER MISS AN ISSUE!

Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter.

  • This field is hidden when viewing the form
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Sparsile Books Ltd

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781914399909

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 1, 2022

BUY THIS BOOK

As an Amazon Associate and Bookshop.org affiliate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Red Road Green

Jonathan Franklin

AMAZON, BRAZIL 1965. The government offers land and money to those brave enough to travel 2000 kilometres to make a new life in the jungle.

A brave young woman, Idenea, and her family are given a 50 hectare plot and begin clearing 40 metre high trees. Malaria is rampant; Indians watch; life is hard. When her baby is stolen, she is forced to flee in search of her child.

Nearby, is an unlikely ally. Bobby, an ex British soldier, has turned to ranching to hide from the demons of his past. Meeting in the Perfect Peace Motel they fall in love. He tries to protect her from slavery and his troubled history.

Full of reckless youth, they build a life together. But when political violence strikes can their love survive?

Share this

Jonathan Franklin

Young and idealistic Jonathan Franklin left rural Suffolk to work in Brazil. After a few years in an investment bank in Rio, he bought into land in the Amazon. This was a very different world.

He soon learned that beneath the colourful mosaic of races, religions and cultures was a strong undercurrent of greed, unprincipled politics and violent crime. Spending much of his time in the Amazon, he became acutely aware of the plight of the indigenous people and the destruction of the Rain Forest.

It led him to write his first work of fiction, Red Road Green, in the hope of raising awareness of an impending tragedy that will affect us all.

Jonathan Franklin’s first book, Two Owls at Eton, was described as a classic of wildlife writing. It went straight to the best seller list and stayed there for several weeks. Republished in 2016 it was a best seller all over again.