Just Now, Now Now

Brigadier Jim W. Parker CBE, the first post-apartheid British military attaché at the British embassy in Pretoria in 1993, decided to stay on in South Africa, making a new life as B&B owner on a farm near Mooi River. Somewhere along the way, he wrote two fictional novels - The Corrupt Affair, based on the South African arms deal gone wrong, and his latest one, Just Now, Now Now. This latest book covers the eight years on the farm where Jim and his wife Jeannie developed a successful Bed and Breakfast, and tourism broking businesses (Parker Tours). The tensions that persist in South Africa, incompetence and corruption, culture clashes, and more are all dealt with in this memoir of an ex-pat Englishman. He has left the B&B behind, and remains in South Africa, pursuing other projects - if one chooses to live in Africa, one might as well enjoy its heat.