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Turkey, Surviving the Expats (Best of Perking the Pansies Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Jack Scott (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
In 2009, Jack Scott and his civil partner, Liam, sold off the family silver and jumped the good ship Blighty for Muslim Turkey. They parachuted into paradise with eyes firmly shut and hoped for the best. When the blindfolds were removed what they saw wasn’t pretty. They found themselves peering over the rim of a Byzantine bear pit. Bitching and pretension ruled the emigrey roost. The white-washed ghettoes were populated by neo-colonial bar-room bores who hated the country they’d come from and hated the country they’d come to and were obsessed with property prices, pork products and street dogs. Expat life was village life where your business was everyone’s business. For Liam, it was the barren badlands of the lost and lonely. For Jack it was the last stand of the charmless Raj - 'Tenko' without the guards, the guns and the barbed wire. It took them a while to find their feet and separate the wheat from the chavs but, determined to stay the course, eventually they found diamonds in the rough and roses among the weeds. Regular replenishing trips back home to the bosom of friends and family was a vital tool in their expat survival kit. Jack wrote it all down in a blog for the world to ignore. He called it Perking the Pansies. Against the odds and quite by surprise, Perking the Pansies grew into the most successful blog of its kind in Turkey, attracting an international audience, the attention of the Turkish national press and hatching an award-winning autobiography. Jack’s witterings struck a global chord because expats are expats wherever they pitch up. Jack raised a satirical mirror. Sometimes the reflection was funny, sometimes it was sad, and sometimes it was plain ugly.

Jack has published the best of the blog from the Turkey years as a two volume e-book – Turkey, the Raw Guide and Turkey, Surviving the Expats. Welcome to Part Two of the mini-series. The uncensored director's cut includes previously unpublished material together with Jack’s personal recommendations of the must-sees that Turkey has to offer to visitors and residents alike. Jack likes to be functional as well as decorative.
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Episode Two of the best of Perking the Pansies, the Turkey years.

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In 2010, Jack started an irreverent narrative about his new life and Perking the Pansies quickly became one of the most popular English language blogs in Turkey. Within a year, Jack had been featured in the Turkish national press, published numerous essays and articles in expat and travel magazines and contributed to the Huffington Post Union of Bloggers. As the blog developed a head of steam, a growing worldwide audience clamoured for a book. Jack duly obliged and his hilarious (well, he thinks so) memoir,  Perking the Pansies, Jack and Liam move to Turkey hit the streets at Christmas 2011. The book became a critically acclaimed, award winning best seller and its success has opened out a whole new career for Jack as an author. Jack and Liam decided to end their Anatolian adventure and paddle back to Britain on the evening tide. They currently live in Norwich, a beautiful cathedral city in eastern England. 

Jack's now on a Turkey roll. He's released the best of the blog as a two part e-book, Turkey, the Raw Guide and Turkey, Surviving the Expats. The uncensored director's cut includes previously unpublished material together with solid advice about the extra-ordinary land that Jack called home for four years. Jack likes to be functional as well as decorative.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B35QI9I
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jack Scott
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 18, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 420 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 142 pages
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Imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, married, middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country. Jack Scott chronicled his exploits with the mad, the bad, the sad and the glad in a blog for the whole world to ignore. Then came the book which became a critically acclaimed best seller. Its success opened out a whole new career for Jack as an author. www.jackscott.info

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  • James King
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, incisive and observant
    Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2013
    Jack takes a tongue in cheek, don't take anything too seriously look at the Expat community he encountered in Turkey over a period of about 20 months. This is a really entertaining, fun read written with Jack's inimitable caustic wit in bite sized chunks. His observations and descriptions of the characters give them life on the page. Quote "Nancy is the undisputed chief concubine, his Nell Gwyn to her improbable Charles the Second." Because this book is effectively a diary I find it easy to pick up and put down at any point. Jack doesn't tax the brain; he just entertains. A laugh a minute.MASK
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  • John Brodie
    5.0 out of 5 stars You won't be disappointed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2013
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    Fantastic humorous read which gives an insight into expat life.Anyone who has visited Turkey will instantly recognise the expat types and their obsessions which Jack has observed and so eloquently described.
    Well written,descriptive narrative that makes you laugh and cry and leaves you wanting more.
    Not only does the narrative give the reader an insight into Turkish life, it is a useful guide to Turkey and its history and above all it is a love story.
    Can't wait for the next book.
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  • Polly
    3.0 out of 5 stars Nowt special really
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 7, 2014
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    This was OK but somewhat biased toward the experiences of a gay couple. Worth the couple of quid I spent on it but no more than that.
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  • D. LEWIS
    5.0 out of 5 stars OK
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2019
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    OK
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  • ADavison
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2015
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    I enjoyed this diary of happenings in Bodrum.
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