STEWART SHALE
After a career ranging across engineering, quality control, training and sales management Stewart took early retirement in 2004, and moved to France with his partner Diane to renovate a two hundred-year-old farmhouse. After remodelling as a holiday let business, they ran it for six years before relocating to the Scottish Borders. Married in 2015, they have a joint family of five children, and fifteen grandchildren. Following Stewart's retirement, they have since moved back down to north east England. Stewart travelled extensively during his wife's career at British Airways, loves writing and painting, and chaired an art group in England. He is a member of the Scottish Association Of Writers; and, as a member of The Kelso Writers Group, he had anthologies published and received an award for a play he wrote for a Borders theatre group. He has published two biographies and, more recently, published Ashes in the Wind, a book of 28 short stories. Stewart is currently working on two more books.
Stewart's new collection of short stories is available for purchase from Amazon.
ASHES IN THE WIND
A collection of short stories including both fiction and non-fiction, ranging from comedy, biography through drama to horror.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Wind-Mr-Stewart-Shale/dp/1804403156
HIPPO IN A HAIRNET
Two divorcees, a new life in France.
Five teenage kids on a bonding holiday.
A dream French farmhouse becomes a money pit.
Helpful neighbours - but some rogues.
A five year plan on a limited budget.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hippo-Hairnet-Adventure-Stewart-Shale-ebook/dp/B09K6PH493
IF ONLY WE'D KNOWN
The long awaited sequel to the much loved Hippo in a Hairnet. The continuing saga of two divorcees and their attempts to create a new life in France together. their battles with authority, rip-off mercants and even sometimes some less trustworthy friends and neighbours.
Interesting characters, humour and colour tinged with pathos make a riveting read.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Wed-Known-Stewart-Shale-ebook/dp/B0B8JCLW3L
