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  • Just a Pompey Boy

    Memories of growing up in Portsmouth

    by George East ...
    It’s the dying days of World War Two, and a child is born during a dramatic air raid that badly damages the family home and destroys the midwife’s bicycle. At least, that’s what George East’s mother told him in later years. But then she also claimed that the painting-by-numbers picture of a bunch of sunflowers in the passageway could be a preparatory sketch for the real thing by Vincent Van Gogh. ... Read more

    $5.59 CAD

  • Dead Money

    by George East ...
    Series series Jack Mowgley Crime Thriller
    Detective Inspector John ‘Jack’ Mowgley grows ever more world-weary as his views on justice, duty and law enforcement become increasingly out of date. Rather than adapt to and conform with current thinking on positive policing, the dinosaur detective likes to do things his way, and consequently lurches from one crisis to the next. His fiefdom is a Continental ferry port on the south coast, but he ... Read more

    $5.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kiss of De'Ath

    Mowgley Crime Mystery/ Thriller

    by George East ...
    Series series Mowgley International Detective
    What Readers say: "I was totally absorbed as the tale unfolded, not so much by the plot, but waiting for the next assault on political correctness.""Mowgley is refreshingly sordid, and I was secretly pleased to find he had absolutely no redeeming characteristics."Jack Mowgley, a once highly respected SB officer in the MET and in later years in charge of the continental ferry port of Portsmouth, ... Read more

    $5.59 CAD

  • 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

    $6.30 CAD

  • Home & Dry in France

    by George East ...
    This hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes,discusses all the delights and drawbacks of finding,buying and restoring French property. Significantly subtitled A Year in Purgatory,Home & Dry in France follows the initial adventures of our innocents abroad en route to their 18th-century water mill. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dead and Buried

    by George East ...
    Series series Jack Mowgley Crime Thriller
    Former SB Inspector Jack Mowgley has taken enforced early retirement and is scraping a living as a private detective in Normandy. Recovering in a Cherbourg hospital after a hit-and-run attempt on his life, ex colleague and loyal friend Catherine McCarthy arrives with wine, cigarettes and news of an old lover.In Dead and Buried Jack finds himself embroiled in criminal activity when an old flame ... Read more

    $3.72 CAD

  • Death á la Carte

    by George East ...
    Series series Jack Mowgley Crime Thriller
    For more than a decade, Inspector Jack Mowgley has been keeping a sort of rough-hewn order at Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port. Critics and those who fell foul of his notions of natural and sometimes rough justice say he regarded the port as his personal fiefdom. They are right.But times have changed, and the Police Force has become a Service. The day that a fast-track and very politically ... Read more

    $5.59 CAD

  • Home & Dry in Normandy

    A Memoir Of Eternal Optimism In Rural France

    by George East ...
    The brilliantly entertaining true story of how one couple set out with a dream of moving to France - and got far more than they ever bargained for.HOME & DRY IN NORMANDY is the first of two books following the adventures of George and Donella East as they try to realise their dream of living the good life in rural France. After months of property-hunting, the couple arrive at The Mill of the Flea, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Year Behind Bars

    The Publican's Tale

    by George East ...
    "My wife has bought me a pub for Christmas. Or rather, she has allowed me to buy one for myself. Soon I will be able to drink at cost price and entertain customers and friends in my front room. What's more, I will actually be paid for enjoying myself instead of shelling out to visit other people's pubs..."So begins A Year Behind Bars, the diary of one man's attempt to create the perfect pub. The ... Read more

    $5.67 CAD

  • French Impression: The Loire Valley

    Valley of the Kings

    by George East ...
    Series series French Impressions
    French Impressions: The Loire Valley "The title is very apt. Compared with other travel books, reading George's work is like coming across the brightness and brio of an Impressionist painting in a museum full of sombre art...**"West Town NewsProduct DescriptionFrench Impressions: The Loire Valley is the latest in a series of distinctive travel books by George East. George is the author of nine ... Read more

    $6.30 CAD

  • French Kisses

    by George East ...
    In the bestselling tradition of Peter Mayle, the second hilarious instalment of George and Donella East's adventures in Normandy.In FRENCH KISSES the Easts continue their adventures in a land where time is cheap, good friends priceless, and reluctant tractors are brought to life on a frosty morning with a shot of moonshine brandy. During an eventful year at the Mill of the Flea, we encounter a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • France and the French

    How to survive buying a home in France and living with the enemy

    by George East ...
    Series series The Naked Truth
    If anyone should know his onions about France, the French and their funny little ways, it’s George East. When he and his wife Donella bought their first home across the Channel, they made so many cock-ups that George wrote a book to warn others about the perils and pitfalls. Home & Dry in France became a best-seller, and was the first of a series of acclaimed books recording their adventures while ... Read more

    $3.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus