Out of Competition

"Laugh out loud funny" --  Carla M. Wilson, author of Curious Impossibilities and Impossible Conversations 5.0 out of 5 stars  "Intelligent, provocative and fun" – UK, October 16, 2024 Review – Cherry Jam "Humorously subversive. It goes so fast I read it in two days. A must for anyone with a love of cinema and its festivals. And the most irreverent novel written about the South of France." Out of Competition by Lew Collins Demonstrators protest for democracy at the Renne-Sur-Mer annual film festival,kidnapping a Hollywood producer while a Russian impresario's shark falls from ahelicopter out in the bay, and the festival's deputy usurps his boss's position. Chaos headlines a year to forget or the one to remember. People who should win don't. Those who shouldn't do. Nobody knows anything, everyone off the air, out to lunch, or simply…Out of Competition From the author of Uncorrected Proof – a new novel on film under siege in the south of France –winner