"Peace Hotel", a sample of diverse humanity, all put together in a big container Alan Marquis depicts life in a hotel, where all the most moving and captivating personalities pass by in an interesting real-life carousel.

An experiment, to examine where a writer’s mind can lead imagining to have several, different characters and personalities in one place. Alan Marquis has done that and his mind produced "Peace Hotel", a grotesque romantic, funny and compelling story which is the quintessence of hotel life, the extraordinary episodes happening in that very close but wide world.
Alan Marquis, tells a story, that is completely fictional but with a big lot of inner feelings and inspiration drawn by the author’s own life experience. A hotel, as a set in a piéce by Balzac, inspired to a real existing place, close to where Marquis lives, whose name is really Peace Hotel, run by a couple, Isabelle and Frederick to whom the two homonymous characters in the story are inspired.

Peace Hotel is a maniacal cruise through layers of hilarious, literary farce. A journey that embarks on the solemnity of death, wading through a litany of bitter-sweet adventures and human failings - events that the author has no doubt experienced himself in his private alter-egos as family and first world War historian and dedicated Francophile.

This is an enchanting, well-constructed tale of life, love, learning, avarice and emotion - including a leather clad, octogenarian granny, determined to live out her remaining days on the wild side of life - if not on her motorbike. Follow this group of oddball, jigsaw pieces, from the ends of self-indulgent depravity along a gold-laden path in search of riches, freedom and justice.

Having hailed from the quietness of the Channel Islands, and joined the Army at the tender age of fourteen, spending his formative years encased in uniform clothes and indoctrination, Alan Marquis is clearly no uniform thinker. His Peace Hotel encapsulates those very special human moments when life has its own plans for the future. Moments that offer hope from adversity, humour with genuine and explosive surprise, and with special cameo roles played by our heroes’ two favourite ladies, love and luck.

This is a genuinely charming, captivating, and compulsive book - almost a film in words. And in the compilation of his literary screenplay, Alan Marquis has single-handedly re-written the tired history of the entente cordiale!