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The travels, trials, and tribulations of an overseas service engineer working for British Leyland in the early 1970s
Leyland Rover is a personal account of Ken Ryeland’s several tours of the Far East as a service engineer for British Leyland during the early 1970s. After serving an engineering apprenticeship and several years working in Nigeria, Ryeland and his family returned to the UK, where he joined the Rover Company at Solihull. His initial task was to audit the company’s UK distributor network to ensure quality servicing for cars and Land-Rovers. Twelve months later, he joined Rover/Triumph’s overseas service department. Subsequent reorganisations resulted in Ryeland taking on the | |  | | The Last Bature
The Last Bature (pronounced Batuuree) is the story of the last British policeman stationed in the Northern Region of a failing West African state and his attempt to prevent a major disaster.(Available in paperback and all e-book formats)
p style="text-align: justify">i>The Last Bature /i>is a Policeman's tale set in Nibana, an imaginary West African state, shortly after gaining independence from the British. What begins as a straightforward investigation by the last British policeman in the Northern Region and an African Inspector, quickly turns to intrigue when the intelligence services of the superpowers vie with each other to secure a breakthrough in weapons technology. Combine this with the machinations of an irrational regional military governor hell-bent on overthrowing his brother, the head of state,&n | |  | | The Mine
The Mine is a political thriller set in West Africa during the turbulent sixties
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">i>The Mine/i>/b> is a political thriller set in Nibana, an imaginary West African state, several years after gaining independence from the British in 1962. With the Eastern Region about to secede and Nibana heading for civil war, the head of state invites an archaeology professor and his team to investigate some ruins in the Northern Region. The professor’s astonishing finds initiate a chain of extraordinary events that lead to abduction. A police investigation ensues, but becomes complicated when an Eastern Bloc country is commission | |  | | The Up-Country Man
The Up-Country Man is a personal account of the first one hundred days inside secessionist Biafra.(Available in paperback and all e-book formats
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div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">The setting for this memoir is the West African state of Nigeria in the late nineteen-sixties. The former British Colony is wracked with political turmoil and tribal unrest that finally results in civil war following the secession of the former Eastern Region into the independent state of Biafra./div>
div style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span> Ken Ryeland, a young British engineer, arrives at Ikeja Airport in April 1967, | |  | | Time Well Spent
Memories of a former apprentice motor fitter working for the railways in Birmingham 1957-1963.
Time Well Spent is a personal account of Ken Ryeland’s training as a motor fitter in Birmingham, where he served his apprenticeship with British Railways (London Midland Region) from 1957 to 1963. Birmingham, the veritable “Workshop of the World”, could offer a limitless variety of industrial and clerical jobs during the 1950s. Work was so plentiful in those days that it was possible to resign from one company in the morning and start work at another by lunch time on the same day. Many skilled men took advantage of this happy situation by changing jobs if they could secur | |  | | Tribal Gathering
Tribal Gathering is a collection of eight stories set in 1960s post colonial West Africa.(Available in paperback and all e-book formats)
p style="text-align: justify">em>Tribal Gathering /em>is a collection of eight stories set in an imaginary West African state shortly after gaining its independence from the British in 1962. Struggling to come to terms with the tribalism, nepotism, corruption and greed that flourishes at all levels of society is part of every-day life and relatively simple compared to the problems of surviving three military coups and a civil war. It is against this backdrop and that of a rapidly failing infrastructure that the stories evolve. From the dry heat of the Northern Desert to the suffocating humi |
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