One Hundred Days in Samoa

We were all set for paradise. But was paradise ready for us? We came to Samoa fleeing winter. Kate would teach at a local school and I would write a travel blog. Life would be sweet and good things would happen to us. What we didn’t expect was the onslaught of barking dogs, taxi horns and Zumba classes. We’d have to adapt if we were to survive. One Hundred Days in Samoa is the story of how two expats cope with living on a South Pacific island and return enriched by their experience.

Making Meredith

If ancestry is a story, then truth may be a sting in the tale.

When amateur genealogist, Rob Banks, travels to the remote town of Meredith he hopes to research his mother's father. His mum never knew her dad, yet she believes he was the local doctor - surely a well-respected man. 

Seventy years earlier, Dr Robert Lachlan faces a dilemma of morals and medicine. No matter what course he chooses, he will hurt his loved ones and change his life.

This is a tale of two men in different times. A grandfather whose deeds still haunt his descendants; a grandson searching for his ancestor's secrets.

Sometimes you have to see through history to discover who you are.