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September 21, 2009

The Book of the Blog of the Trip

ABHAHA book cover The African Brew Ha Ha keeps brewing ...

African Brew Ha Ha - the book - will soon be available to all the abhaha fans who could not get enough of the blog!

Publication of the book about my tea tour through Africa is due in April 2010 in the UK from the good people at Summersdale. Then who knows!

I've already had a great endorsement from travel writer Peter Moore who read an early draft of the book. Always thought he was a man of good taste.



Posted at 05:39 PM in Africa - other stories, Book, Books, How the African Brew Ha Ha works, In the News, Reasons to Drink More Tea, Stuff about the Bike, Travel |

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Peter Bassano

Congratulations on the publishing deal Alan - all the re-editing graft has paid off in the end.
Looking forward to the book launch next year
Best wishes from Peter & Jill

Posted by: Peter Bassano | September 23, 2009 at 09:15 PM

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