Non Fiction: Travel Memoirs
The Wrong Shade of Yellow
I was middle aged and homeless, soon to be penniless, and really and truly no different from that bag lady sitting on the bench over there. I couldn’t jack it in and go home, because I didn’t have a home to go to anymore. The bicycle and the tent were now home. Wherever I found myself on any given night was now home. And that meant, for tonight, Genoa Piazza Principe Railway Station was home.
I was cycling across Europe in search of Utopia, a place I believed was located somewhere in Greece. When I found it, I would start a new life there. It was my big, fat, Greek midlife crisis. But now I was having a crisis within a crisis. What on earth had I been thinking?
Everything Will Be Just Perfect
From a review by Viga Boland for Readers’ Favourite: “Margaret Eleanor Leigh is, if I dare say it, slightly crazy. But crazy in the nicest and cleverest way when it comes to entertaining her readers. Though she doesn’t classify the book as such, Everything Will Be Just Perfect! is a memoir about nothing being perfect, no matter how hard one tries. It’s also a humorous travel memoir, and what better way to travel from South Africa to New Zealand, from Greece to Wales than to move residences 92 times! Why would anyone move 92 times in a lifetime? Well, Margaret Eleanor Leigh and her mother, Polly, who ends up dying by the time all the moving’s done, have perfectly good reasons for doing so. And those reasons find readers sometimes appalled, occasionally surprised, often confused but always amused.”
Currently only available on Amazon, but coming soon to Google Play, Smashwords, Kobo etc.
Fiction
The Incorruptible
“If you write anything about this, you will not leave Greece alive.” The man called Yiannis lounged in his deck chair, a clouded glass of ouzo in his hand, and from his tone the words could have been as innocuous as unless you hurry, you might miss your ferry.
Aggie shifted uneasily, wondering what impulse of cretinous stupidity had prompted her to say she was a journalist. But what had been said could not be unsaid.
“I’d be very careful on our mountain passes on that bicycle of yours, thesponis,” he continued smoothly. “Greek drivers can be very careless.”
Follow journalist Agnes Jones as she takes on traffickers in Greece, in a hair-raising adventure with as many twists and turns as those dangerous Greek roads, and in which no-one is quite what they seem.
Trail of Regret
The last time Charlotte James saw Van Gogh’s famous sketch “Regret,” it was hanging on the wall of a museum in Cardiff. That means the version now lying on her desk is a fake. Or does it?
Join Charlotte James, fine art consultant with a dodgy past, and a cast of eccentric characters on the trail of the truth about “Regret.”
Beach listening I call it, or sick-in-bed-with-flu listening. It’s a deliberately droll romp, but with enough substance to save it from silliness, I trust. I had a great deal of fun writing it, and I hope you enjoy reading it (or listening to it)!
Audio version of Trail of Regret currently free on Google Play. Click here for the link.
Children’s Books.
Frog Dog Summer
The ugliest dog in the pound is rescued from doggy death row at the last possible moment. With a new loving family, it’s shaping up to be the best summer ever for Frog. But when word gets out he is a rare and valuable Manchurian Mountain Dog, everything starts to go horribly wrong…
Bird King Spring
Where the King of the Birds comes from is a mystery—he just turns up out of the blue one day. Some people want to get rid of him. The children of the village want to keep him. That’s when everything starts to get a little crazy…
Animal Ark Autumn
The children of the village now have their very own petting zoo… just a very, very tiny one in the village churchyard. Then someone starts dumping unwanted animals over the wall in the middle of the night. Lots of animals. There is only one word for what happens next: Pandemonium!
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