Beneath A Copper Sky 16th May 2023
Apartheid still rules in South Africa when Angela and Stephen take on a job as caretakers of a remote farm in the Midlands of Natal. Things don’t go quite as planned from the moment they arrive, and the young...
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Harbour Ways 4th October 2015
Harbour Ways is the sequel to Watery Ways, Valerie Poore’s first memoir about living on a barge in Rotterdam’s Oude Haven in the Netherlands. This second book tells of the first two years that she owned her own barge,...
Watery Ways 23rd September 2015
Trading life in the fast lane of Johannesburg for that of Rotterdam’s serene Oude Haven, Valerie Poore packs all her worldly possessions aboard the historic Dutch barge Hoop and sets about rebuilding both the boat and her life after...
African Ways 22nd September 2015
This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons society of Britain at the beginning of the 1980s, the author is literally transplanted to a farm in the foothills of...
How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics 19th August 2015
When Maisie Peterson leaves university in 1977 without a job to go to, she decides to help her mother save her large and impractical country property in the wilds of rural Dorset by trying her hand at self-sufficiency. Ma...
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