John Parker & Stephen Adams 
Zimbabwe 

John Parker was born an Ayrshire farmers boy on the 1st of January 1964 in the West of Scotland. After travelling the world, mainly by himself, he now prefers to divide his time between his home in Scotland and his house on La Isla de la Juventud, Cuba.
Parkers interests are writing comedy, travelling and photography. While preferring to tutor himself in his writing dexterity or any other intellectual allegiance, he acquired a handy knowledge of various languages to assist him on foreign shores. As he backpacked all over the world, this bilingual adroitness gave Parker a different perspective and outlook on the many places he saw and the people he met along the way.
Zimbabwe is the second of Parkers books after writing Escape Route, which is about the many ridiculously comical tight spots he experienced during his backpacking journeys. On one of Parkers many digressions he sojourned all over Africa, and his observations there, along with his farming background, inspired him to write this book.
Zimbabwe is a fictional book of satirical humour about a country ruled by a dictator. The story denotes a wry and often cruel dnouement regarding the consequences of dictatorships, and also presents a supposition on how the lives of the citizens within them are affected. The humorous characters within the literary composition will tend to veer the reader towards the hypothesis that both black and white people are guilty of a slightly tribal built-in prejudicial disposition, and it also reveals how fickle the human race can be. However, its all written in the name of comedy, and the moral of the book is to demonstrate the instability in character that makes up the human psyche and to find the humour that lies beneath.
Many literary critics are now commenting that there isnt enough humour being written nowadays. Zimbabwe is unique and others who have read it thought it was hilarious, written by an author with a sharp sense of humour, you will have a laugh or two if you read on.

Circa l’autore

John Parker was born in 1964 an Ayrshire farmer’s boy in the West of Scotland and educated at Gateside school and Garnock Academy, Kilbirnie. He studied at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing and became an engineer in the gas industry where he’s still employed. Preferring to tutor himself now, he has learned various languages to assist him while travelling and is fluent in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French and Gaelic. After leaving his home village of Gateside by Beith in Ayrshire in 1983, he moved to Troon, and in 1995 went to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and livssssed in the town of Stornoway until 2005 when he returned to Gourock where he is currently residing. After having back-packed and travelled all over the world, mainly by himself, he now prefers to divide his time travelling between his home in Scotland and his house on La Isla de la Juventud in Cuba.

His interests are writing comedy, travelling and photography. This is his first book and would make a good travel companion for the solo pilgrim traveller. It’s about the life of an ordinary man who has seen the world for himself, pulled a trick or two and never got stuck in the quick-sand because he had an escape route. That’s the appeal of the book, a companion for those of you who want to travel the world, broaden your horizons and make life a playground for enjoyment.

One thing is certain; you will have a laugh if you read on.