Memoir & Adventure

Travel.... Adventure.... True Stories
Every book is an adventure, whether they’re memoirs, fiction, gift books or non-fiction. 


"Anyone who says they have only one life to live
must not know how to read a book."
Author Unknown

Join us in a thrilling hot-air balloon ride, race on a speedboat, live in France, sail around the world, find inspiration and hope. Saddle up for explorations, thrills, escapades and delve into the art of giving, and being thankful. Experience life’s emotions. Quake with fear and mirth – be shocked. Gasp! Cry! There are battles to fight, human spirits to shine, and animals to love, These books are lethal, loving, feisty, scary, wise, real and dashingly great. 
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MEMOIR / TRAVEL
Laugh out loud in many places, this autobiography from Welsh writer and photographer Jean Gill tells the tale of her first year in Provence - complete with challenging situations and thought-provoking musings. Jean takes readers on a tour of the beautiful Drome area, painting such a vivid picture of the fields of lavender, sunflowers and olive trees that you could almost be there with her.' - Living France Magazine. The true scents of Provence? Lavender, thyme and septic tank. But how can you resist a village called Dieulefit, `God created it', the village 'where everyone belongs'.
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MEMOIR / DOGS 
A dog's life in the south of France. From puppyhood, Sirius the Pyrenean Mountain Dog has been trying to understand his humans and train them with kindness. 
How this led to their divorce he has no idea. 


Misunderstandings take Sirius to Death Row in an animal shelter, as a so-called dangerous dog learning survival tricks from the other inmates. During the twilight barking, he is shocked to hear his brother's voice but the bitter-sweet reunion is short-lived. Doggedly, Sirius keeps the faith. One day, his human will come.
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MEMOIR / ADVENTURE 
They rescued five horses from an unknown fate. They sold everything they had.

Life became horses, trail, endurance, and camping: all seven reliant on one another as they trekked along part of Australia’s majestic Bicentennial National Trail. Fears were faced, healed, and conquered. Bonds were forged.

But did the team of seven that started together, finish together?

Saddle up and take a ride along life’s natural trail of trauma, fear, pain, and loyalty.
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MEMOIR / TRAVEL 
After suffering an emotionally-brutal bereavement and against her counsellor’s advice, Jackie ran away. Suddenly within a new culture, with a new husband, and no friends, she was living in the obscure world of cruising with zero knowledge of boats.Crashing within the first twenty-four hours, Jackie realized life would never be the same again. Amid the raging seas, Jackie shed the fear she’d been harbouring.

Soon she was blissfully voyaging around the world, but she still carried the mixed emotions of losing one man, while falling head over heels in love with another.
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MEMOIR / SELF HELP
My intention was to give a heartfelt gift to my mother; it also turned out to be one of the greatest gifts I gave to myself. 

By focusing on the abundance of small acts of love from my mother, many grudges and issues I previously replayed over and over in my mind throughout my life washed away in an ocean of tears.

Coming Soon: To Dad, Gifts from Your Soul
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ADVENTURE
Erica is a nine-to-five office temp with flaming red hair, emerald eyes, and black lipstick. An adventurer at heart, she hires a hot-air balloon ride for she and her boyfriend, complete with a champagne lunch.  While in the air, she witnesses a crime happening on the ground below. Somehow, Erica and Paul manage to land the balloon but their troubles are not over. They are tracked down and abducted by a gang engaged in human trafficking, and taken to an island in the Mediterranean. 

Hot Air is a contemporary crime novel and a winner of both the Wuacademia Silver Award in 2007 and Prix d'Or (Gold) 2008 for best unpublished novel.