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Laptop entrepreneur Nick Snelling chats to Expat Women about internet’s potential

Laptop entrepreneur Nick Snelling chats to Expat Women about internet’s potential

In this March interview with Expat Women, Nick Snelling discusses why he and co-author Graham Hunt wrote Laptop Entrepreneur (Summertime, 2011), the advantages of an online business, as well as how to go about starting it. Asked whether creating an internet business is the solution to recent job insecurity, Nick replies: “Well, it is certainly one answer and it has great advantages over starting other businesses. The overheads can be negligible, the risks almost absent and it is strategically sound, as the internet is constantly expanding and is here to stay. Perhaps best of all, there...

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Gran Canaria author Matthew Hirtes becoming a regular on BBC Radio

Gran Canaria author Matthew Hirtes becoming a regular on BBC Radio

In his latest interview on BBC Radio Tees with hosts Phil Chapman and Amy Leas, author Matthew Hirtes (Going Local in Gran Canaria) talks about why he moved to Gran Canaria, the challenges he faced, and how to make a new place feel like home. Some of his tips include learning the language and to rent and get used to your new country before you buy. Matthew, who was “very homesick initially”, started to feel more at home as he built up a network and improved his Spanish – and when he started playing football with a local team. Listen to the full interview here. [Find Matthew's...

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Don’t miss Jae De Wylde’s book signings in the next few months

Don’t miss Jae De Wylde’s book signings in the next few months

Jae De Wylde, author of The Thinking Tank (Summertime, 2011), will be holding a number of book signing events in the upcoming months… Date: Saturday, 2 June 2012 Venue: Whitestuff, Stamford Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM   Date: Saturday, 23 June 2012 Venue: Waterstone’s Camberley Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM   Date: Saturday, 30 June 2012 Venue: Waterstone’s Finchley Road Time: From 12 noon   Date: Saturday, 8 September 2012 Venue: Bookmark Spalding Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM   Date: Saturday, 15 September 2012 Venue: Waterstone’s, Kettering Time: 10:00AM...

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Author Jae De Wylde appears on radio show Dubai Eye

Author Jae De Wylde appears on radio show Dubai Eye

Jae De Wylde, author of The Thinking Tank (Summertime 2011) recently appeared on Dubai Eye’s flagship morning chat show, Dubai Today. [Find the full interview on Jae's website] In the two-hour chat with co-hosts Suzanne Radford and Richard Manson, during which listeners texted in comments and questions, Jae discussed everything from writing to love to loss to what inspired her story. “I was touched by the comments, empathy and stories, which flooded in from all over the UAE,” she writes in her post-interview blog. During the interview, Suzanne and Jae also discovered a rather...

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Latest edition of Deb Fletcher’s heartwarming memoir “Bitten by Spain” comes to Kindle!

Latest edition of Deb Fletcher’s heartwarming memoir “Bitten by Spain” comes to Kindle!

Bucking the trend, Deborah Fletcher opted out of coastal living in southern Spain and moved inland… MAY 2012, Murcia, Spain – What began as a series of newsy emails back home has become this delightful, honest and often hilarious account of a British couple’s move to the Spanish countryside. Unimpressed by coastal living in southern Spain and adamant that she wanted a space to call her own – and to grow her own – Deborah Fletcher dragged fireman husband John inland. There, in the Murcian countryside, they bought a large and beautiful piece of land in a river valley, complete with almond...

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“Expat Teens Talk” provides food for thought for this expat family

“Expat Teens Talk” provides food for thought for this expat family

In this review of Expat Teens Talk (Summertime 2012) on ExpatArrivals.com, Rawia writes that ”reading Expat Teens Talk has spurred a number of useful and interesting discussions in our household. My 18-year-old daughter, who is leaving to go to university next academic year, found the advice particularly valuable. More importantly, it made her realise that there are so many teens around the world just like her.” Read the full review here. Expat Teens Talk: Peers, parents and professionals offer support, advice and solutions in response to Expat Life Challenges as shared by Expat...

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Books

Our fave reviews of Vicky Gray’s “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts”

Our fave reviews of Vicky Gray’s “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts”

Here are some of our favourite reviews of the latest edition of Vicky’s Gray’s Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts (2nd ed.) (Summertime, 2012)… “A...

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Expat Teens vs non-Expat Teens…

Expat Teens vs non-Expat Teens…

Two weeks ago we heard from authors of Expat Teens Talk, Dr Lisa Pitman and Diana Smit, how it feels...

 
 
Maggie Myklebust, Fly Away Home

Maggie Myklebust, Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home ‘Clean freak’ Maggie tries so hard to keep her life in order but is...

 
 
Test your cultural competence with this NEW BOOK from Summertime Publishing

Test your cultural competence with this NEW BOOK from Summertime Publishing

CROSS-CULTURAL AWARENESS KEY TO SUCCESS OF EXPATRIATE ASSIGNMENT According to researcher Ben van der...

 
 
How it feels to work with Expat Teens

How it feels to work with Expat Teens

Expat Teens have a perspective on life and the world that is quite different from most teens in a monocultural...

 
 
Deborah Fletcher, Bitten by Spain (2nd Ed.)

Deborah Fletcher, Bitten by Spain (2nd Ed.)

Bitten by Spain: The Murcian Countryside – A Baptism by Fire Following a popular, if somewhat...

 
 
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Book reviews

“Expat Teens Talk” provides food for thought for this expat family

“Expat Teens Talk” provides food for thought for this expat family

In this review of Expat Teens Talk (Summertime 2012) on ExpatArrivals.com, Rawia writes that ”reading Expat Teens Talk has spurred a number of useful and...

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Jae De Wylde’s The Thinking Tank “a fine piece of work”

Jae De Wylde’s The Thinking Tank “a fine piece of work”

In this five-star review on Waterstones.com, Jessica Peach (22) describes Jae De Wylde’s The Thinking...

 
 
Our fave reviews of Vicky Gray’s “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts”

Our fave reviews of Vicky Gray’s “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts”

Here are some of our favourite reviews of the latest edition of Vicky’s Gray’s Didgeridoos...

 
 
Going Local in Gran Canaria is featured in The Australian

Going Local in Gran Canaria is featured in The Australian

Matthew Hirtes’ Going Local in Gran Canaria has been picked up for review by Australia’s...

 
 
Maggie Mycklebust’s memoir is “honest and heartfelt”

Maggie Mycklebust’s memoir is “honest and heartfelt”

“I haven’t read a lot of memoirs in my time, I always go for fiction, but let me tell you, Maggie’s...

 
 
Designer shares her thoughts on Ruth E van Reken’s Letters Never Sent

Designer shares her thoughts on Ruth E van Reken’s Letters Never Sent

Designer Alison Day, who designed the latest edition of  Ruth  van Reken’s Letters Never Sent (Summertime...

 
 
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Laptop entrepreneur Nick Snelling chats to Expat Women about internet’s potential

Nick Snelling, co-author of “Laptop Entrepreneur: How to make a living anywhere in the world” (Summertime, 2011) chats to Expat Women about writing the book and making money online

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Gran Canaria author Matthew Hirtes becoming a regular on BBC Radio

Matthew Hirtes, author of “Going Local in Gran Canaria: How to turn a holiday destination into a home” (Summertime 2012) appears on BBC Radio Tees with Phil Chapman and Amy Lea

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Don’t miss Jae De Wylde’s book signings in the next few months

Jae De Wylde, author of “The Thinking Tank” (Summertime, 2011), will be holding a number of book signing events in the upcoming months. Here’s a list of them.

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Author Jae De Wylde appears on radio show Dubai Eye

Jae De Wylde, author of The Thinking Tank (Summertime 2011), is interviewed on flagship morning radio show “Dubai Eye”.

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Latest edition of Deb Fletcher’s heartwarming memoir “Bitten by Spain” comes to Kindle!

The second edition of Deborah Fletcher’s heartwarming and hilarious memoir “Bitten by Spain” (Summertime 2012), set in the Murcian countryside, is released on Kindle

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“Expat Teens Talk” provides food for thought for this expat family

“Expat Teens Talk” (Summertime 2012) by Dr Lisa Pitman and Diana Smit is reviewed by ExpatArrivals.com.

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Australia most popular country for Brits moving abroad

Australia is the most popular country for Brits moving abroad – and Vicky Gray’s revised “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts: A Brit’s Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under” (Summertime 2012) takes you through the steps you need to take to get there.

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Jae De Wylde’s The Thinking Tank “a fine piece of work”

Jae De Wylde’s “The Thinking Tank” (Summertime 2011) receives a 5-star reader review on Waterstone’s.com.

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Author Apple Gidley says home is in her memories

In this latest blog for the UK’s Telegraph, author Apple Gidley tells of the surprise visit of her daughter and granddaughter in time for the launch of her memoir, “Expat Living – Slice by Slice” (Summertime 2012).

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Our fave reviews of Vicky Gray’s “Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts”

Some of our favourite reviews of the latest edition of Vicky’s Gray’s Didgeridoos and Didgeridon’ts (2nd ed.) (Summertime, 2012)

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