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Moving Islands' is John's seventh memoir book, and it continues very much in the same vein as the previous six, in that it's highly amusing, even laugh-out-loud in places, yet also informative and educational, giving a unique insight into what it's like not only to move to Greece from the UK, but also how one goes about moving from one island to another, a watershed in their lives that neither the author nor his wife had foreseen coming. If ...

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When a young British man living with his Greek wife on the Greek Island of Lesbos discover a half-drowned Syrian refugee on a remote beach near their home, their desire to help the unfortunate man soon begins to have far reaching effects on their own lives and that of their families that neither could have foreseen.

An affectionate look back at numerous characters that the author has come to know over his more than four decades of being married to a half-Greek girl. Some are funny, some are tragic, but all are life-affirming, in the sense that they've added immeasurably to his experience of Greece, both before and after he moved there to live permanently in August 2005. Each chapter is loosely based on one particular friend, group of friends or acquaintan...

Part three of a trilogy of memoirs spanning not only almost forty years of visiting Greece, but also five years of living there. As with the first two books in the "Ramblings" series, this is packed with laughs and even a few tears as the reader is taken on the usual roller coaster ride through the author's amazing experiences of the sunshine country.

Volume 4 of the "Ramblings From Rhodes" series, comprising over 40 of the most humorous and informative stories gleaned from six years of living on the Greek island of Rhodes and originally posted on the "Ramblings From Rhodes" blog. Books 1-3 of the series have been hailed for their humour and insight into the Greek psyche. This volume continues the odyssey.

A changing climate brings heavy rains to West Texas and gives river guide, Robbie Ducharme, the opportunity to take his clients down a never-before-run desert arroyo.The landscape they enter, the people they encounter, and the relics they find, give these modern-day explorers the thrill of a lifetime. They also threaten Robbie's relationship with the woman he loves and the life of the assistant he admires.In Solitario-The Lonely One, John Manu...

John and his half-Greek wife Yvonne-Maria moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005, the account of which was told in his first book, FETA COMPLI! MOUSSAKA takes up where FETA COMPLI! leaves off, with Yvonne and John settling into life on Rhodes and coming into contact with some great characters who live around them out there. Plus, there's another helping of reminiscences from past years and other parts of Greece and Europe in general, like the tim...

How meeting a girl with a Greek mother in a smoky bar in Bath, UK, eventually led to living in Greece. Only it took the best part of 30 years! If you like lighthearted yet informative travel books, this is right up your street. Travel writing at its best. FETA recounts how the author and his wife drove from the UK to Rhodes with all they possessed in a white van, then set up home and began a new life. The book also contains plenty of amusing a...

An affectionate look back on the vast array of characters the author has met during over forty years of either visiting or living in Greece. Each chapter is dedicated to a person or family that has in some way enriched the author's Greek experience, which now includes, at the time of publishing, over 16 years of living in Greece.

One evening, Amanda left work as usual. Then she disappeared. No one saw anything. No one knew what had happened to her. There was simply no sign of her.When she allows her estranged birth-father back into her life, 22 year-old Amanda thinks it could only lead to better prospects, and maybe a slightly better bank balance. Yet she is unprepared for just what an effect he was going to have on her life and that of her friends and family.This stor...

Origins: The Forgotten History of Man and His Story Revealed is a title with two meanings. When you read the title And His Story Revealed, the reader will automatically think that the story of mankind's forgotten history will be told to them, and indeed it will. What the reader will also come to realize is the book title has a double meaning.The second meaning of His Story Revealed is the life story and meaning of the life of Christ. In the ch...

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes.A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete.By pure chance, the two events, although separated by over twenty years, are irrevocably linked by the taverna where the young Englishman ends up helping out.The result is life-changing, both for the mother of the child that disappeared,...

Robbie Ducharme is pursuing his dream, leading clients in canoes down the remote Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexico border. Newly-divorced Janey Hart decides Robbie's week-long trip will be just the thing to help her bond with her distant teenaged daughter. Others find themselves fording these treacherous waters for even greater stakes. Fifteen-year-old Sayda Pacheco is fleeing the gang violence of Honduras, hoping to start a ...

Two teenage sisters, growing up in the Plaka district of Athens, Greece. Life seems idyllic, and the girls can't think of anything that they ought to worry about, except for having a good time.The only problem is, this is the late 1930's, and things are about to change in ways they could never have imagined.An old woman lies dying in a hospice in the UK. She has an incurable cancer and is in the early stages of dementia. Yet, in her lucid mome...

Adrian Dando has a good marriage, and a steady, if somewhat pedestrian life in the West of England. Without warning it all goes horribly wrong and he is left alone and bereft. Having two friends who have already moved out to Greece, he decides, with their encouragement, to do likewise. After all, a new start, a new life, new experiences, all of these should enable him to kick-start his life again, maybe even bring him some degree of happiness....

This is a frank, amusing, poignant, hard-hitting, controversial yet always absorbing take on over a decade of life on a Greek island.

Hurley Cates, the 70-year-old protagonist of Hope Valley, is a retired factory worker who lives with his wife, Opal, on a hilltop farm on the edge of Durham, NC. Durham in the 1980s is undergoing rapid change from dying Southern factory town to a land of opportunity for new age entrepreneurs and unconventional youth. Hurley is determined to hold on to the heart of his world-his pristine farm with its 5-acre lawn and the house he built for his ...

In this, John Manuel's first full-length novel after having written four very successful travel memoirs about Greece, he again takes the reader into the tiny whitewashed streets of the village of Lindos on the island of Rhodes. Dean and Alyson are two young people who come together in a bar one evening in their home city of Bath, UK. Alyson's mother once worked with Brian, a musician who never quite "made it", but ends up playing guitar and si...