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Turkey Street – Jack and Liam move to Bodrum Six months into their Turkish affair, Jack and Liam, a gay couple from London, took lodgings in the oldest ward of Bodrum Town. If they wanted to shy away from the curtain-twitchers, they couldn’t have chosen a worse position. Their terrace overlooked Turkey Street like the… Read More Turkey Street – Buy Direct for 10% Off
One Woman’s Search for the True Meaning of Home Sam Frearson-Tubito What if home isn’t a place, but something you learn to carry within you? “A book that those who have grown up – or lived as adults – among many cultures will find emotionally moving and deeply thought-provoking.” Ruth E. Van Reken, co-founder of… Read More Beneath a Borrowed Sky – Out Now!
Do you, like Jo Weaver, think you were born with the ‘fat gene’ and that it’s not fair because you work hard to try to look good? If so, then book is your holy grail. At last, someone real has written a book that normal people can use. While it’s funny and sometimes irreverent, it’s… Read More Look Out, Here Comes the Fat Girl! Out Now
The Connected Mobile Family: a rigorous framework that identifies the challenges of global living and then tackles them head-on—with 55 pragmatic and instantly usable tools. Tools that have the power to change the lives of globally mobile families everywhere. “One of the most practical and insightful expat resources I’ve come across.” Chris O’Shaughnessy Author of Arrivals,… Read More The Connected Mobile Family – What the Experts Say
The Connected Mobile Family – 55 tools for your toolkit Laura Giosh-MarkovDrawing on her extensive experience as an international school counselor and therapist, Laura Giosh-Markov shows globally mobile parents how to “connect more dots” and empower their children to build lifelong skills. Travel with global nomads Sara and Max Tiller and their kids, Jace (16),… Read More The Connected Mobile Family – Out Now!
How to survive life’s most stressful situations when living abroad Sue Schoormans Living abroad or planning to move overseas? Then it’s time to give your life all the attention it deserves. Because no one ever said living abroad was easy. Adapting to life abroad – the rules, the norms, the customs, the values – can… Read More Sink Then Swim – Out Now!
Buy Jack Scott’s evergreen memoir, Perking the Pansies, Jack and Liam move to Turkey, direct from the Springtime Books and get 10% off the list price*. About the Book Jack and Liam, fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple commutes, quit their jobs and move to a small town in Turkey. Join the culture-curious gay… Read More Perking the Pansies – Buy Direct for 10% Off
With such an immense political and cultural heritage, it’s no surprise kaleidoscopic Turkey is such a feast – a prime cut of authenticity, seasoned by the West and spiced by the East. Jack Scott knows a thing or two about the country. He lived there for four years and travelled widely – to Istanbul and… Read More Jack Scott’s Postcards from the Ege – Now Available on Audible
On Swallows’ Wings: A memoir of hope by Lesley Pendlebury. Mental health was not something you talked about openly in the 1960s, but Lesley Hughes was determined to beat the anxiety that plagued her. She longed for a purpose, a stable relationship, and a family – but all were elusive. The author was born in… Read More On Swallows’ Wings – Out Now!
Three women. Three secrets. Three broken lives. Mariam Navaid Ottimofiore Can we ever escape our past? When three women move to Portugal and are thrown together by happenstance, little do they know how dramatically their lives are about to change. Fatima Khan is a Pakistani writer with a gift for languages, a German husband, a… Read More The Guilty Can’t Say Goodbye – Out now!
Springtime Books is delighted to confirm that, due to popular demand, Niamh Ni Bhroin’s inspirational memoir, The Singing Warrior, Finding Happiness After a Life Filled with Pain and Abuse, is back on sale.