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The Brigandshaw Chronicles #13
The Game of Life
Is it a deliberate trap or just the game of life?
He’s lived all his adult life on the banks of the Zambezi River. A safari camp operator but destined to live alone. Despondently returning to Zimbabwe after his brother’s wedding, Phillip Crookshank is left ruminating about his future. Until he meets the American…
Falling for the seductive woman’s charms, Phillip knows it will only be a brief love affair. As they always are. But Martha has other ideas. Ideas to entrap a man who only has one true love. His passion for Africa.
Trapping Phillip in the only way she can, Martha thinks she has won but has she? Only the gods will decide…
The Game of Life is the thirteenth book in the acclaimed Brigandshaw series where ordinary people’s lives play out right before your eyes with Peter Rimmer’s unique voice. You feel you are right there too, in the thick of it.
He’s lived all his adult life on the banks of the Zambezi River. A safari camp operator but destined to live alone. Despondently returning to Zimbabwe after his brother’s wedding, Phillip Crookshank is left ruminating about his future. Until he meets the American…
Falling for the seductive woman’s charms, Phillip knows it will only be a brief love affair. As they always are. But Martha has other ideas. Ideas to entrap a man who only has one true love. His passion for Africa.
Trapping Phillip in the only way she can, Martha thinks she has won but has she? Only the gods will decide…
The Game of Life is the thirteenth book in the acclaimed Brigandshaw series where ordinary people’s lives play out right before your eyes with Peter Rimmer’s unique voice. You feel you are right there too, in the thick of it.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
308 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2021
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About the author
Peter Rimmer
78 books86 followersPeter Rimmer was born in London, England, and grew up in the south of the city where he went to Cranleigh School. After the Second World War and at aged 18, Peter joined the Royal Air Force, reaching the rank of Pilot Officer before he was 19. Then at the end of his National Service and with the optimism of youth, he sailed for Africa with his older brother to grow tobacco in what was then Rhodesia, and the odyssey of his life began.
The years went by and Peter found himself in Johannesburg founding an insurance brokering company. Over 2% of the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were clients of Rimmer Associates. He opened companies in the United States of America, Australia and Hong Kong and travelled extensively between the branches.
His passion had always been writing books, which he started at a very early age, though running a business was a driving force too and a common thread throughout his books. By the 1990’s, he had written several novels about Africa and England, and his breakthrough came with Cry of the Fish Eagle published by HarperCollins, Zimbabwe. It was a bestseller, which was followed up with the release of Vultures in the Wind. However, during this time, Zimbabwe was going through its struggles and the books did not get their just international recognition.
Having lived a reclusive life on his beloved smallholding in Knysna, South Africa, for over 25 years, Peter passed away in July 2018. He has left an enormous legacy of unpublished work for his family to release over the coming years, and not only them but also his readers from around the world will sorely miss him. Peter Rimmer was 81 years old.
To learn more about Peter, and to get a free starter library of novels, visit his website at www.peterrimmer.com, or find him on Facebook.com/PeterRimmerAuthor, follow him on Twitter @htcrimmer.com, and on BookBub: www.bookbub.com/authors/peter-rimmer
The years went by and Peter found himself in Johannesburg founding an insurance brokering company. Over 2% of the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange were clients of Rimmer Associates. He opened companies in the United States of America, Australia and Hong Kong and travelled extensively between the branches.
His passion had always been writing books, which he started at a very early age, though running a business was a driving force too and a common thread throughout his books. By the 1990’s, he had written several novels about Africa and England, and his breakthrough came with Cry of the Fish Eagle published by HarperCollins, Zimbabwe. It was a bestseller, which was followed up with the release of Vultures in the Wind. However, during this time, Zimbabwe was going through its struggles and the books did not get their just international recognition.
Having lived a reclusive life on his beloved smallholding in Knysna, South Africa, for over 25 years, Peter passed away in July 2018. He has left an enormous legacy of unpublished work for his family to release over the coming years, and not only them but also his readers from around the world will sorely miss him. Peter Rimmer was 81 years old.
To learn more about Peter, and to get a free starter library of novels, visit his website at www.peterrimmer.com, or find him on Facebook.com/PeterRimmerAuthor, follow him on Twitter @htcrimmer.com, and on BookBub: www.bookbub.com/authors/peter-rimmer
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July 18, 2023
Time doesn't make things better
In the last weeks I have read thirteen of the Btigandshaw novels. I probably should have stopped at number ten. Peter Rinner must have stopped there because these last three have changed from meaningful stories of a family from Rhodesia to absolutely repetitive dribble about greed and alcohol.
In the last weeks I have read thirteen of the Btigandshaw novels. I probably should have stopped at number ten. Peter Rinner must have stopped there because these last three have changed from meaningful stories of a family from Rhodesia to absolutely repetitive dribble about greed and alcohol.
April 5, 2022
Disappointment
I have read the series. It feels like it is running out of steam and the narrative has lost its way. By comparison with the early books this is a pale immitation written in a staccato style at times that I do not like. Debating whether to give up or not. I understand the message, I understand the direction the plot has taken, I just don't like it.
I have read the series. It feels like it is running out of steam and the narrative has lost its way. By comparison with the early books this is a pale immitation written in a staccato style at times that I do not like. Debating whether to give up or not. I understand the message, I understand the direction the plot has taken, I just don't like it.
February 14, 2023
Angst-filled. The Briganshaw series declines.
The series started strongly with action and interesting characters. This one gets preachy, boozy and tiresome.
I am hoping for some of the earlier family members to return.
The series started strongly with action and interesting characters. This one gets preachy, boozy and tiresome.
I am hoping for some of the earlier family members to return.
August 6, 2024
I can’t believe how stupid the main characters are, telling strangers about their personal finances which sets them up to be taken advantage of. It happens in every single book. Clearly the author thinks white Rhodesians are stupid.
So, turns out Martha the American & her cronies (boss), want Randall to become an investment capitalist & spend his inheritance on others ideas for a job. She’s fine with him being bored in America, but refused to live in Africa where she was bored. She doesn’t believe he has the inheritance & requires written documentation from his accountant, yet she wants to spend his money. She’s so ridiculously selfish that she doesn’t see that Randall is a simple man & doesn’t care about wealth. She thinks he’s lying about the inheritance so now she’s going to lie about him being the father. What a messed up immature woman!
Bottomline, Martha is a liar. Her default is to lie vs to tell the truth.
The author has a very negative attitude about people, he thinks everyone is using each other & his characters reflect that attitude. It’s become quite boring.
Interesting that the author is english and has such a perverted view of Americans. Not all of us are greedy & selfish like his characters.
Spoiler. Martha’s baby is stillborn. She goes into a rage & kicks Randall out.
So, turns out Martha the American & her cronies (boss), want Randall to become an investment capitalist & spend his inheritance on others ideas for a job. She’s fine with him being bored in America, but refused to live in Africa where she was bored. She doesn’t believe he has the inheritance & requires written documentation from his accountant, yet she wants to spend his money. She’s so ridiculously selfish that she doesn’t see that Randall is a simple man & doesn’t care about wealth. She thinks he’s lying about the inheritance so now she’s going to lie about him being the father. What a messed up immature woman!
Bottomline, Martha is a liar. Her default is to lie vs to tell the truth.
The author has a very negative attitude about people, he thinks everyone is using each other & his characters reflect that attitude. It’s become quite boring.
Interesting that the author is english and has such a perverted view of Americans. Not all of us are greedy & selfish like his characters.
Spoiler. Martha’s baby is stillborn. She goes into a rage & kicks Randall out.
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February 5, 2022
Insights in people's life's
Absolutely one of the best series of family I have ever read , can hard,lay put it down , chow people life's change and history stories of ordinaries people e
Absolutely one of the best series of family I have ever read , can hard,lay put it down , chow people life's change and history stories of ordinaries people e
April 10, 2023
Riveting and fast paced. My favorite series.
Don’t start in the middle of this series. Go back to volume 1 and savor the Brigandshaw series. Rimmer is an excellent story teller.
Don’t start in the middle of this series. Go back to volume 1 and savor the Brigandshaw series. Rimmer is an excellent story teller.
April 29, 2023
Argh….2 more books and each of these last ones are worse than the one before. The story is reduced to soap operas - too much repetition and navel gazing.
September 10, 2025
Too much drinking, no depth to this edition, hardly seemed part of this series, disappointed
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