HOW TO START A RIOT IN A BROTHEL IN THAILAND BY ORDERING A BEER AND OTHER LESSER KNOWN TRAVEL TIPS.

 

HOW TO START A RIOT IN A BROTHEL IN THAILAND BY ORDERING A BEER AND OTHER LESSER KNOWN TRAVEL TIPS by SIMON YEATS. 

Genre ... Humour, Memoir, Travel

Publication Date ... 15th October 2023

Estimated Page Count ... 250

Standalone first book in a 3 part series

Purchase Link ... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLDBSXGX  

Book 1 of a hilarious series of travel misadventures and dubious personal introspection by Australian author Simon Yeats, who from an early age learned that the best way to approach the misfortunes of this world is to laugh about it.

​Simon shares his comedic insights into the unusual and uproarious elements of living life as an Aussie ex-pat and having a sense of Wanderlust as pervasive as the Spanish Flu in 1918.

​From how to keep yourself entertained when unwittingly forced to watch 11 hours of live sumo wrestling in Japan, to surviving heartbreak in India at the hands of a French flight attendant, to 48 hours spent in Nepal that qualify as the funniest most gut wrenching travel experience since Captain Bligh was set adrift in the Pacific, to his unsuccessful attempts at avoiding going to a brothel in Thailand.

​Simon Yeats has gone into the world and experienced all the out of the ordinary moments for you to sit back and enjoy the experience without the need to break a leg or rupture a pancreas.

Whether or not a horror novel is scary enough; a thriller exciting enough; a romance romantic enough; a 'funny book witty enough, its all subjective, humour perhaps most of all, right? 

Sooo, speaking for myself ...

Whilst not altogether uproarious I did find How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand By Ordering A Beer And Other Lesser Known Travel Tips {what a great title} an amusing enough read in which the author's sense of humour and love of travel shone through. That at times they bought into racial stereotypes ... Hmm! Personally speaking, not something that I personally found funny but hey-ho.

Covering some twenty seven years of misadventure, a travel memoir with a difference. The author revels in poking fun at himself in any number of cautionary tales in which I found myself chuckling, wondering just how they got away with some of the things they did.

Part one in a planned series of three book. I wonder what adventures await Yeats as he once again travels the globe.

Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.

With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.

​No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.

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THE {ANTI} WEDDING PARTY.

 

THE {ANTI} WEDDING PARTY BY LUCY KNOTT.

Genre ... Romance

Publication Date ... 14th March 2024

Publisher ... Aria (Head of Zeus)

Standalone Novel

Estimated Page Count ... 320

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It's the biggest day of their best friends' lives... and they might just ruin it.

​Andi hates weddings. So when her best friend Alex tells her she’s getting married in Italy, and asks her to be her maid of honour, she knows she’s the wrong woman for the job. But Alex won’t take no for an answer, and so begins a week-long trip to a beautiful villa in Italy, full of potential disasters that it’s Andi’s job to avoid. But what if she’s the one causing them?

​Enter Owen, fellow wedding-hater, Best Man and also the worst person for the job. Tall, sexy and warm, Andi can’t help but feel the ice around her heart begin to melt when he’s around. But as Andi and Owen grow closer, the disasters begin to multiply, try as they might to keep them at bay. Together, can they put their feelings aside and pull off a successful wedding for those they love most?

Narrated by Andi who, OK we get it, perpetually sweating and with a nervous, grumbling tummy really isn't into the whole wedding scene ... and who can blame her after what happened minutes before her own wedding.  

But then this is the wedding of her best friend and I'd have expected some degree of support and yet Andi makes it all about her and her feelings. Feelings which the author spends a lot of time convincing us, the reader, of to the point that, any empathy I might have had gone, I found myself irritated by Andi's 'poor me' attitude.

That's not to say I didn't enjoy the book though. A 'rom-com' for all of those readers who don't do weddings which I guess is kind of refreshing; I liked the other characters; its just a shame that other than the one incident that is very briefly mentioned we get to know little of Owen and what had happened in his past relationships that turned him so cynical about marriage; and, oh my goodness, the Italian setting and all of that talk of Italian food, it was this that truly made the book for me.

Lucy Knott loves nothing more than curling up in a cozy writing spot, with coffee and biscuits on hand, and writing the day away.

She loves love in all its forms and adores writing warm, happy stories full of romance, sibling bonds and best friends who know each other inside and out. You’re also guaranteed to find the most delicious food in her books, with Lucy being a lover of Italian food and anything and everything sweet.

​When not writing Lucy enjoys spending time with her partner and her family, cooking her Nanna and Grandad’s Italian dishes (that you can find in her and her twin sister, Kelly’s cookbook, Fame Da Lupo), baking all kinds of cake and cookies, and getting lost in a good book.

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HAZARD NIGHT.

HAZARD NIGHT BY LAURA VAUGHAN.

Genre ... Thriller

Publication Date ... 1st February 2024

Publisher ... Atlantic Books

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Estimated Page Count ... 320

Author Content Warning ... Suicide (referred to in the past)

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Cleeve College is not for everyone...

When Eve's husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join him. But the isolation and loss of autonomy threaten both her happiness and her marriage.

The arrival of Fen, an enigmatic artist and wife of the new Classics teacher, is a welcome distraction. Fen doesn't play by the rules, and she and Eve enter into a game of escalating dares, disrupting the delicate balance of school life.

Then, the morning after Hazard Night, a tradition that allows the students to run wild and play pranks for one day, a body is found. Someone has been murdered. And it seems everyone has something to hide...

A slow burner {and yet for all of that, oddly enough, it was the first, what, three quarters of the book that I found most engrossing} which held little in the way of surprises. The characters, the characters, meh, readable but hardly what I'd call memorable.

Set within a world of academia. For me personally, with its unexpected seriously dark underbelly {a genre that I'm reliably informed is known as Dark Academia} I thought Hazard Night an enjoyable enough thriller that sadly lacked that bit something that would have made it a remarkable one.

Still, not without things to recommend it. I did enjoy the differing perspectives. Not something that every author can pull off but, narrated from the point of view of two of the characters, the author did so here with a certain degree of confidence.

     

Laura Vaughan grew up in rural Wales. She got her first book deal aged twenty-two and spent several years working in publishing, followed by a behind-the-scenes role at English National Ballet. She lives in South London with her husband and two children. Hazard Night is her third novel for adults.

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