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West Africa Is My Back Yard: Ex-Pat Life in The Gambia and Beyond: Part 1 - So where on earth is The Gambia anyway?
Join international best-selling author and ex-pat Brit Mark Williams on the first part of this odyssey through the history, geography, culture and daily life of the country he calls his home - The Gambia and the region he calls his back yard - West Africa.
Part memoir, part travelogue, part...
If you like Bill Bryson's meandering travelogues that leave no stone unturned to share the author's fascination with the world around him, you'll love West Africa Is My Back Yard.
Part two of the series coming soon to an ebook retailer, subscription service or digital library near you.
All proceeds from the series go towards supporting, babies, children, families and schools in The Gambia.
Part memoir, part travelogue, part...
If you like Bill Bryson's meandering travelogues that leave no stone unturned to share the author's fascination with the world around him, you'll love West Africa Is My Back Yard.
Part two of the series coming soon to an ebook retailer, subscription service or digital library near you.
All proceeds from the series go towards supporting, babies, children, families and schools in The Gambia.
75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 24, 2015
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About the author
Mark Williams
43 books1 followerLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Novelist, TV scriptwriter, playwright and freelance travel-writer, Mark Williams is a British ex-pat living in The Gambia, West Africa.
Author of the international best-selling novels "Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story", currently marketed`under the Saffina Desforges brand, and co-author with Saffina of the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The French-translated Sugar & Spice topped the charts in France, and a Chinese translation of "Sugar & Spice" hit #1 on Kindle China in 2014.
"Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story" will be available in French, Spanish and Portuguese later this year.
Mark is currently re-writing the entire Sherlock Holmes short stories for children, and these are available in multiple languages. Children's adaptations of other classics to follow.
Other works include "The Ten Best James Bond Movies...Ever!" countdown series and the travelogue-memoir series "West Africa Is My Back Yard".
Work is under way on two rom-com mystery series, "The Taj Mahal Mysteries" and "The China Town Mysteries", and the three-pronged "Margate Rock" comedy-mystery series comprising "The Last Resort" (the DCI Camllla Quaif Mysteries), "Brailsford & Brailsford" lawyer mysteries and James Patterson, P.I., a private investigator series set in and around Margate.
Other pending fiction works include "Puppy Dogs' Tails", the chilling sequel to "Sugar & Spice" and "Cold Blood".
Up and coming narrative non-fiction works include the "Romps Through History" series, starting with a study of Henry VIII, a geography series as yet untitled looking at how the physical world around us has shaped our lives.
Mark Williams is an authority on the global ebook markets and will shortly be publishing two books focussing on the lucrative opportunities emerging in China and India.
Novelist, TV scriptwriter, playwright and freelance travel-writer, Mark Williams is a British ex-pat living in The Gambia, West Africa.
Author of the international best-selling novels "Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story", currently marketed`under the Saffina Desforges brand, and co-author with Saffina of the "Rose Red" crime thriller series.
The French-translated Sugar & Spice topped the charts in France, and a Chinese translation of "Sugar & Spice" hit #1 on Kindle China in 2014.
"Sugar & Spice" and "Anca's Story" will be available in French, Spanish and Portuguese later this year.
Mark is currently re-writing the entire Sherlock Holmes short stories for children, and these are available in multiple languages. Children's adaptations of other classics to follow.
Other works include "The Ten Best James Bond Movies...Ever!" countdown series and the travelogue-memoir series "West Africa Is My Back Yard".
Work is under way on two rom-com mystery series, "The Taj Mahal Mysteries" and "The China Town Mysteries", and the three-pronged "Margate Rock" comedy-mystery series comprising "The Last Resort" (the DCI Camllla Quaif Mysteries), "Brailsford & Brailsford" lawyer mysteries and James Patterson, P.I., a private investigator series set in and around Margate.
Other pending fiction works include "Puppy Dogs' Tails", the chilling sequel to "Sugar & Spice" and "Cold Blood".
Up and coming narrative non-fiction works include the "Romps Through History" series, starting with a study of Henry VIII, a geography series as yet untitled looking at how the physical world around us has shaped our lives.
Mark Williams is an authority on the global ebook markets and will shortly be publishing two books focussing on the lucrative opportunities emerging in China and India.
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