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  • Faking It In France

    by Karen Bates ...
    It seemed like a good idea at the time. I had seen all those TV programmes. The dream of living in France was only a ferry ride away.But months later, my life was a nightmare. I didn't fit in with either the expats or the French, my husband had taken refuge in Star Trek and I had adopted a crazy dog that ate anything he could find, including my slippers.Faced with loneliness and very homesick for ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Welcome to the Pink Ladies Club

    by Karen Bates ...
    Karen Bates was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine screening. In this frank and heartfelt memoir she shares her story and tips for surviving breast cancer, chemotherapy and reconstruction surgery. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Managing Childbirth Emergencies in the Community and Low-Tech Settings

    Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth. Using an enquiry-based learning approach, this book offers a straightforward but comprehensive guide to emergency care, with scenarios throughout and expert commentary from a Supervisor of Midwives. It all addresses all major emergency situations as well as legal and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • A Summer Spent Mending Fences

    by Rowena Jaye ...
    Buying a holiday home in France was something Penelope had wanted to do for years, but the experience doesn't go as smoothly as anticipated.Trouble starts when Penelope's boyfriend leaves her for the attractive French woman living next door. On top of the chaotic situation developing abroad, there are family and work issues at home to be dealt with. Penelope comes face to face with a pressing need ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Italian Village: a perspective on life beside Lake Como (Italian Trilogy Series Volume Two)

    by Paul Wright ...
    "An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian Life" Hannah McIntyre, The Italian Insider MagazineIn this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', artist Paul Wright describes Italian village life and his regular dialogue with a group of retired men who are mostly from the catering trade. Punctuated with work adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrow Escape

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    "Oh, you live on a boat? That must be really cold in the winter. . ." Or, "Oh, you live on a boat? It must be great being so close to nature . . ." Or, "Oh, you live on a boat? It must be fantastic to be able to go wherever you like, whenever you like . . ."Narrow Escape sets out to dispel these commonly held public myths.From how to avoid assassination by ninja stealth ducklings, through ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Two Men In a Car (A Businessman, a Chauffeur, and Their Holidays in France)

    by Mike Buchanan ...
    'A splendid romp. Vive la France!'Peter Mayle, author of 'A Year in Provence' and many other bestsellers'Mike Buchanan is the best kind of opinionated, middle-aged, middle-class Englishman abroad: the funny kind.'Andy Heslop'If you have a sense of humour, this book will put a big smile on your face. I laughed out loud many times. A refreshing absence of political correctness.'The lovely Maureen ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narrow Margins

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    Narrow Margins – a laugh-out-loud book which proves that lean times can sometimes be a very positive thing.Faced with the loss of everything following the collapse of the Rover Group, Marie Browne moved her long-suffering husband Geoff, chaotic children and smelly, narcoleptic dog on to a houseboat in search of a less stressful, healthier, alternative way of life.Strapped for cash, the family buy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Narrow Focus

    The Narrow Boat Books

    by Marie Browne ...
    Series series The Narrow Boat Books
    Peace and tranquillity. For once nothing terrible is happening. After years of dodgy moorings, ankle-deep mud, exploding toilets and all the other normalities of live-aboard life, the Brownes now seem to have found the perfect spot in which to park Minerva, their aging narrowboat. Marie and family finally find the time to work on the outside of the boat and even take a holiday or two. It looks as ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Plane Tree in Provence

    A Plane Tree in Provence, #1

    Series Book 1 - A Plane Tree in Provence
    Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Home & Dry in France

    A Year in Purgatory

    by George East ...
    Series series Mill of the Flea
    In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes, George East discusses all the delights and drawbacks of finding, buying and restoring French property. HOME & DRY IN FRANCE follows the early adventures of George and Donella East as they make every mistake in the (not-then-written) book about how and how not to buy a second home across the Channel. Tellingly subtitled A YEAR IN ... Read more

    $6.55 USD

  • Narrowboat Nomads

    Living the Dream on the English Waterways

    by Steve Haywood ...
    We were aware of a dreamlike quality to our trip. There was something far-fetched about it, something out of this world.Austerity might be getting everyone else down, but Steve is waving his worries goodbye on another of his light-hearted trips around the picturesque English waterways.This time it’s a bit different, though. This time he’s not just cruising with his cat, Kit, but with his long ... Read more

    $4.99 USD