Under an African Sky
In 1967 I took a two year contract as an auditor in Nairobi. My initial two years eventually extended to nine and was the start of a love affair with East Africa which continues to this day. My auditing took me from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and Antananarivo and from the tea plantations of Kericho to a research station in the Serengeti before I moved on to tourism and other stuff.
East Africa was where I got to know myself. I arrived a twenty-six-year-old accountant used to the slight formality of that profession, fully adult but never having been in a position of real authority or responsibility; I left nine years later with the confidence of an entrepreneur and a wealth of experience shaped by both success and failure, a risk taker ready to meet the next challenge.
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An Accidental Envoy
In 1990 I was one of a team of consultants charged with devising a strategy to lift the Turks & Caicos Islands, a British Dependent Territory, out of its dependency. That led to a fifteen-year relationship with that small Caribbean nation during which I was variously Director of Tourism, Superintendent of Offshore Finance, Registrar General with responsibility for banking, insurance, shipping, patents and trade-marks, and for ten years the official representative of its government in the UK.
This is a memoir about that relationship and will, I hope, appeal to lovers of the Turks & Caicos, the Caribbean and small islands in general.
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An Accidental Bookseller
A very personal memoir of my relationship with the iconic and much loved bookshop Foyles of Charing Cross Road in London. From fond childhood memories of my eccentric and brilliant grandfather William Foyle, ‘the Barnum of Bookselling’ and my aunt, the beautiful, charming, witty, self centred and at times utterly ruthless Christina Foyle, to the 21st century rejuvenation of a dying family business, An Accidental Bookseller will, I hope, appeal to all who have their own memories of Foyles.
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