Bøker av Nick Green

It is 2016 and the coldest winter on record. Oxfordshire has ground to a halt. In Akebury Castle's Italian Garden the discovery of a young girl's dead body is raising many questions.Newly-promoted Detective Chief Inspector Amanda Godspeed must catch the killer before he/she strikes again. But the path of the investigation is anything but smooth, mirroring the tumult in her own personal life.

A chance conversation at a friend's wedding takes a very English restaurant manager from Oxford to the remotest deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast and the tropical swamplands of Botswana's Okavango Delta.Learning to cope with the heat and the tribal customs of the Himba and the San (Bushmen), adapting to work in an environment where confrontations with lions, elephants and leopards are the norm, often pale in comparison when considering the complexities of tackling the most curious beast of all - the safari super-rich.Boathouse to Botswana takes us on a fascinating and funny journey, informative and insightful about both Namibia and Botswana it is also a captivating history of the author's professional experiences over eighteen years in the hospitality industry.Nick Green has written a travel book that enables us to share in the passion, the power, the excitement and the optimism that is Africa.

One young man's struggle with alcoholism, low self-esteem, depression and self-harm. Time and again just as he gets back on his feet Henry is his own worst enemy, until he finally finds his one true love.

When the murdered body of a Merton College undergraduate turns up in the centre of Oxford, Detective Inspector Amanda Godspeed, from Kidlington, must investigate her first murder case. All the clues point to Botswana, Africa and Amanda is drawn into a world she had never even dreamed of. The case, although deadly awakens in her something that will never go away: Is it a feeling of wanderlust or something deeper? As they race against the clock to avert further catastrophe Amanda is forced to question all that she once took for granted.

When John's wife Peggy and dog Arthur are kidnapped by a mysterious Greek, John is forced to reveal his secret past-life as a spy. John just wants to watch the cricket but now he must come out of retirement and race against time to free his family. The Nightwatchman is an action-packed thriller taking us from Gloucestershire to Greece, full of intrigue, murder, deception and even romance. Bashed out in six weeks during lockdown it is in honour of three big birthdays that weren't celebrated this year due to the global pandemic.

Three Journeys to Patagonia tells the story of Nick Green's love affair with Latin America; and charts his progress backpacking the subcontinent as a teenager, as an aspiring travel writer in his twenties, and later as a confirmed adventurer, and Patagonia aficionado in his thirties.Nick tells the story of how once Patagonia had come into his life in 1991, it remained in his consciousness, compelling him to read around the subject, to study it, and to visit the region again and again.Three Journeys to Patagonia asks why so many travellers have experienced the same overwhelming emotions and been mesmerised by Patagonia's enduring sense of isolation, the notion of space and the rugged beauty of a landscape uncorrupted by man. Stories and historical accounts are pulled from different sources and presented to the reader as evidence that serves to prove the self-perpetuating nature of the enduring Patagonian mystique.The author's candid diaries, from 1991, 1998 and 2009, reveal a changing Patagonian and South American scene, through the eyes of a boy, becoming a man.Nick Green is the author of Boathouse to Botswana.