La Puce Publications: 6 books

The second book in the best-selling Mill of the Flea series, continuing the often farcical and always entertaining adventures of the author and his wife as they attempt to make a new life in rural France. Totally unlike any other book in travel literature. Following on from Home & Dry...

"My wife has bought me a pub for Christmas. Or rather, she has allowed me to buy one for myself. Soon I will be able to drink at cost price and entertain customers and friends in my front room. What's more, I will actually be paid for enjoying myself instead of shelling out to visit other people's...

In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes, George East discusses all the delights and drawbacks of finding, buying and restoring French property. HOME & DRY IN FRANCE follows the early adventures of George and Donella East as they make every mistake in the (not-then-written)...

French Impressions: The Loire Valley "The title is very apt. Compared with other travel books, reading George's work is like coming across the brightness and brio of an Impressionist painting in a museum full of sombre art..." West Town News   Product Description...

First, catch your frog... May we propose some oyster and champagne soup from Brittany, accompanied by Normandy lettuce bread and followed by Loire Valley frog’s legs and roasted swan as Richard the Lionheart liked them served up? Then you could round your modest meal off with a soufflé...

From the Back Cover Did you know... The beret-throwing champion of all France is a Breton? The Klingon language is based on Breton? King Arthur and Merlin are buried in seventeen different locations in Brittany? French Impressions-Brittany is packed with...