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Supporting our Buckinghamshire authors
Newly single Jack Kaganagh longs to visit one
hundred countries and join the Travellers’
Century Club before his landmark birthday.
There’s just one problem: Jack’s enthusiasm
for travel is matched only by his unsuitability
to do so.
Travelling alone for the first time, Jack fumbles
around in dreamily faraway places to tick off
his last three countries.
THE EXCURSIONIST
by J. D. Sumner
Beaconsfield resident James Sumner has a PhD in
Satirical Travel Writing and suffers from dromomania
(an uncontrollable desire to travel). He has visited 130
countries so far. His new book, The Excursionist, was
published in May of this year. If you love travelling too,
or have a desire to travel but haven’t quite managed it
yet, this might just be the book for you.
James says “ What I cannot tell you is whether I am a
traveller who is compelled to write or a writer who is
compelled to travel”.
The book is a satirical, darkly comic novel that doesn’t
just ask big questions about life, it makes you want to
jump on a plane in search of white sands and turquoise
waters.
Available to purchase from Amazon: http://amzn.to/2rZvyIm
James asks “if you buy my book and enjoy reading it please leave a review on Amazon for me”.
Hiya Bucks says: The holiday season might be over but Christmas is just around the corner.
This book sounds like a great present idea.
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