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Perking the Pansies

​Jack and Liam move to Turkey

Jack Scott
Just imagine the absurdity of two openly gay, recently ‘married’ middle aged, middle class men escaping the liberal sanctuary of anonymous London to relocate to a Muslim country.
Perking the Pansies
​Jack and Liam, fed up with kiss-my-arse bosses and nose-to-nipple commutes, chuck in the towel and move to a small town in Turkey. Join the culture-curious gay couple on their bumpy rite of passage. Meet the oddballs, VOMITs, vetpats, emigreys, semigreys, randy waiters and middle England miseries. When prejudice and ignorance emerge from the crude underbelly of Turkey’s expat life, Jack and Liam waver. Determined to stay the course, the happy hedonistas hitch up their skirts, flee to laissez-faire Bodrum and fall under the spell of their intoxicating foster land. Enter Jack’s irreverent world for a right royal dose of misery and joy, bigotry and enlightenment, betrayal and loyalty, friendship, love, earthquakes, birth, adoption and murder. Suburban life was never this eventful. You couldn't make it up.
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A bitter-sweet tragi-comedy recalling the first year of a British gay couple living in a Muslim land. 
Empathetic, respectful and pretty acute.
Hugh Pope
​Turkish Daily News
The book's originality lies more in it's honesty about the grubby reality of expat life that conventional travel literature prefers to gloss over.
Pat Yale
Time Out Istanbul
At turns, hilarious, saucy, witty, heart-warming and incredibly moving.
Linda A Janssen
Global Living Magazine

Turkey Street, Jack and Liam move to Bodrum
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  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact Us
    • Our Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Services and Fees
    • Publishing Programmes
    • Selected Services
  • Springtime Titles
    • Expat Bookshop
    • Springtime Direct
    • Expat Life >
      • The Newcomer's Dictionary
      • Badass Abroad
      • #Living the Dream
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • ANZC
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Passage to Persia
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Memoir >
      • Badass Abroad
      • #LivingTheDream
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What about your saucepans?
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage With Just One Breast?
      • The Soul Millionaire
      • Turkey Street
      • Passage of the Stork
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Passage to Persia
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Moving >
      • The Newcomer's Dictionary
      • Vida en Movimiento
      • #LivingTheDream
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Living Elsewhere
      • The Art of Transition
      • Life in Motion
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Unpack
      • Should I Stay or Should I Go?
      • Finding Your Feet in Chicago
      • Deconstructing Brazil
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
      • @Home in Dubai
    • Fiction >
      • The Legend of the Dancing Baobab Tree
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • From Barcelona
    • Health & Wellbeing >
      • Méthode Adamski
      • De Regreso a un Futuro Para a Humanidad
      • Retour Vers un Avenir pour L'Humanité
      • #LivingTheDream
      • How to stand Up to Sexism
      • The Art of Transition
      • Vida en Movimiento
      • Life in Motion
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar
      • Unpack
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Tracce di BioGeometria​
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage with Just One Breast?
    • Wealth >
      • Whose Career - Yours, Mine or Ours?
      • The Millennial Money Masterplan
      • Here We Are
      • The Flight of the Soul Millionaire
      • The Soul Millionaire
      • Seasons of Wealth
      • Secrets of a Financial Adviser
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
      • Retire to the Life You Love
      • Now It's Clear The Career You Own
    • Travel >
      • Travels Through Asia
      • The Twelve Days of Christmas Safari
      • Jump Down Under
      • Italy, a Romantic Journey
      • Postcards from the Ege
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Deconstructing Brazil
    • Children and Young Adults >
      • The Legend of the Dancing Baobab Tree
      • The Twelve Days of Christmas Safari
      • Hanna and the Flying Carpet
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
    • Humour >
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
    • Faith >
      • The Art of Transition
      • Vida en Movimiento
      • Life in Motion
    • Music >
      • Ar Lan y Môr​
    • Foreign Language Books >
      • El Prologo
      • Der Prolog
      • Méthode Adamski
      • De Regreso a un Futuro Para a Humanidad
      • Retour Vers un Avenir pour L'Humanité
      • Vida En Movimento
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
      • Tracce di BioGeometria
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