chesney james

Oh come on, you must have been on one of those “foreign” holidays. You know. The one when the hotel you’re spending the next two weeks of your life in appears to be bursting at the seams with the most eclectic mix of eccentrics you could ever wish (or not wish) to meet. And as their antics get more bizarre you say in jest to your loved one, ‘you know darling I think I’ll write a book about this!’ But in reality you never get around to it, do you?

Well in 2013 I ventured on holiday with my wife to a beautiful island resort. We had a really great time but we encountered, and observed several eccentric (and some really bloody strange) people and their various antics. I said, ‘I’m going to write a book about this’, and over the next two years I did just that.

OK, so not all the characters and story-lines were created from that holiday. Experiences from a 40+ year career in the Hospitality/Facilities Management Industry and the NHS, a “colourful” life in general, together with a vivid, fertile, some may even say vulgar imagination helped create the rest! My efforts supported and assisted by the good folk at Spiffing Covers have resulted in my first novel - A Day at the Hotel Passionella or I Kissed a Lesbian in Shangri-La.

I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Oh, and please don’t forget to keep a lookout for - Another Day at the Hotel Passionella