Jeffrey Round is an award-winning writer, director and playwright. He is the author of literary works as well as two popular mystery series: the Bradford Fairfax mysteries and the Dan Sharp mysteries.
A Cage of Bones was published in 1997. It garnered acclaim and topped bestseller lists around the world. The P-town Murders: A Bradford Fairfax Murder Mystery, was published in 2007. Both books were listed on AfterElton's Top 50 Greatest Gay Books for 2008.
These were followed in 2009 by The Honey Locust, a literary novel about the effects of the Bosnian war on a Canadian family, and Death In Key West, the second Bradford Fairfax mystery.
Lake on the Mountain, the first Dan Sharp mystery, was published in 2012 and won the Lambda Award for Gay Mystery in 2013.
Vanished In Vallarta, the third Bradford Fairfax mystery, was published in 2014, along with Pumpkin Eater, the second Dan Sharp mystery.
Round's short film, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, premiered at the Director's View Film Festival in 2002 and won awards for Best Director and Best Use of Music at the Hollywood North Movie Festival.
Round was artistic director of Best Boys Productions, an alternative theatre company, from 1993-1996. His full-length stage play, Zebra, about the murder of librarian Kenneth Zeller, won the Gay and Lesbian Appeal's Right to Privacy Award and was nominated for a Pink Trillium for Best Gay Play. As of 2014, it is set to become a feature film.
Round was also the stage director for Agatha Christie's long-running hit, The Mousetrap, for three of its record-breaking years in Toronto.
In addition, he founded The Church-Wellesley Review, Canada's first annual print journal for gay and lesbian creative writing. It ran for eleven years, eventually expanding into an on-line quarterly and reading series under the same name.
Round has worked as a producer and writer for Alliance-Atlantis and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is also a composer. His suite of songs based on lyrics by Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg and others, premiered at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in September 2009, sung by soprano Lilac Cana.
A broken promise. A forbidden love. An act of redemption beyond imagining.
In a poignant tale of love and conflict, Geoff Manderson—a weary English tutor from a privileged background—finds his life forever changed when he takes on Yusuf, a Libyan war refugee, as a student. Unaware of the challenges that await, Geoff soon discovers that their clashing cultural values will spark a crisis that tests the very foundations of their lives.
What begins as a fleeting connection evolves into a passionate love affair as Geoff urges Yusuf to choose a future in Canada rather than risk returning home to a war-torn country where he faces persecution for being gay. While their beliefs may divide them, their love for one another becomes an unbreakable bond.
Amidst the struggles against religious discrimination and societal pressure, Geoff embarks on a journey to free Yusuf's mind and spirit. But as tensions rise and choices become perilous, Geoff must confront the ultimate betrayal that could shatter everything they hold dear. Will love be enough to conquer the forces threatening to tear them apart? Dive into a story of resilience, passion, and the courage to be true to oneself.
"The English Tutor is a book yu will want 2 embrace n love as i dew a narrativ uv great subtletee n access looking at evreethiing hed on n thats alwayze changing n finding th way n wayze thru evreething working around th obstakuls n 2 th pleysyur n sorrow n joy all th serching n finding ths book is 2 embrace n 2 love" —bill bissett CM (Order of Canada), poet, artist, writer, musician
"As you read The English Tutor, you realize it's a tale of fractures—those agonizing, irreconcilable rifts between people and cultures, East and West, heart and mind, and hope and horrors. It's a love story that is both timeless and timely in our divided world." —Saad T. Farooqi, author of White World
Title : The English Tutor
EAN : 9781608643561
Publisher : Rebel Satori Press
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