Well, 2025 is off to a productive start, with my two latest books ready for release in the last week. I would have preferred a bit of spacing between them, but that’s how publishing works, and I have no control over production and delivery dates.
So, allow me to announce the release of:
Hunted & Collected:
On the Trail of Bargains & Treasures with an International Antiques Buyer
If you like antiques, and hunting for antiques – and I’m guessing that’s why you subscribe to my Newsletter, this is the book for you. It’s the long-awaited to sequel to Travel & Shop the World For Free.
But while Travel & Shop the World for Free was half instructional (how to do what I do), and half travelogue about a range of destinations that are great for vintage shopping and sight-seeing, Hunted & Collected is purely travelogue. It explores a range of excellent options where you can shop for profit while having a great time. I hope you enjoy it.
You can get your copy online at the website: www.frenchandvintage.biz/books, or you can see me in person at Peregian Beach Market, and from next week you’ll find it at Berkelouw Books. Soon, that will extend to other bookshops and an eVersion will be available on Amazon.
And here’s my special deal for you because you subscribe to my Newsletter: if you buy a copy of Hunted & Collected online or from me in person, I’ll give you a free print copy of Travel & Shop the World for Free. It’s not at all necessary to read the two books in sequence, but it is nice to.
A Cat’s Tale: Curse of the Cat Mummy
This is the fourth in Calypso the Cat’s illustrated book series. It's set in the 1920s Art Deco era, so everything is terribly elegant, dahling. The reading age is 6-12, but the stories and illustrations are designed to entertain the adults who buy the books as well as the children they read to, or give the books to.
In this adventure, Calypso and her girl Tallulah travel to Egypt, where they accidentally summon Bastet, the Great Cat Goddess. It features archaeologists, temple raiders, cat zombies and general mayhem as Bastet invokes her curse. Also look out for Calypso’s real-life vet Cara, who I think makes a fine cat zombie.
This book is illustrated in the lush French Art Deco style and it’s lovely. I also held an art competition with the children of Eumundi State School to create archaeologists cursed by Bastet to become cat zombies, and the results were hysterical. Being published in the book was First Prize, so congratulations to the winners.
You can buy signed copies of this book online at the website. If you’d like more than one book in the series, or multiples of any book, you can buy them together to receive a substantial discount. It will also be available from me and Tauriel in person at Peregian Beach Markets, and from next week at Berkelouw Books. As more outlets offer this series, I’ll update the list.
Finally, here's a shot of Tauriel being her usual helpful self during the unboxing of her big sister's new books. She's such a good gel.
So there you have it, my first two books of 2025. Thank you so much to everyone who buys my books. I’m always thrilled to receive an order.
I’m hoping for another two books by the end of the year, but we’ll see if my productivity can match my ambition.
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