Expat Author and Expatriate Books

An overseas relocation can be a roller coaster of emotions. You are experiencing so many new adventures and challenges but at the same time your family and friends are far away, and your new friends don't always understand what all the fuss is about.

So you have all these new excitements to share but no one to hear about it. Maybe this is why so many expats start to write a blog and some even become an expat author. As a matter of fact there are many books written by an expat author, and the number is growing all the time.

I believe that the best way to learn about the expats lifestyle is from someone who has done it before and can truly tell you how it is. Moreover, even if you are a veteran expat you can still learn a lot from reading the experiences and insights of other expats.

Here you can find a list of books written by expat author. Some of them are well known in the expats community.

Let's start:

Jo Parfitt is a British Expat and an expat spouse who had become an expat expert and a journalist specializing in expat issues and a speaker at international conferences.

One of Joe's most known book is - A Career in Your Suitcase

In the book Jo and a team of contributors shares the secrets of their combined experience and provides an inspiring read for anyone who wants to maintain a professional identity and do rewarding work, wherever they may find themselves.

Some of the subjects that are covered in the book are : Hands-on exercises and checklists, Real-life stories, advice and tips, Job hunting tips and techniques, Nurture your professional identity, Discover your strengths, Find your passion, Design your perfect portable career, Use networking to make it happen, Work for yourself and win

Another very famous book by expat author Jo Parfitt is

Expat Entrepreneur: How To Create and Maintain Your Own Portable Career Anywhere In The World

The book is divided into 3 sections:

Section 1 - Practical advice on how to choose a business idea that works for you and how to develop the right mindset.

Section 2 includes stories of more than 23 international entrepreneurs as they share how they've maintained and built rewarding, portable careers all over the world.

Section 3 provides extensive links, resources and tips for expatriate entrepreneurs living in 35 countries.

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Robin Pascoe is a former Canadian diplomatic spouse (on postings to Bangkok, Taipei, Beijing and Seoul), who has written 5 books on global living. Robin Pascoe is an international speaker on the subject of her five books, and is also the go-to expert for corporations interested in understanding the needs of expats and their families and making recommendations for family-friendly relocation policies.

I will list here only 2 of Robin's books:

A Broad Abroad: The Expat Wife's Guide to Successful Living Abroad

An advice for married women who have been catapulted into a foreign country. The book is packed with emotional and practical support for relocating your life.

Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World

The world has become globalized, digitalized, and sadly, terrorized. That's the big picture Pascoe examines in Raising Global Nomads. In her fifth book for expatriate families, the expat author recounts with honesty what worked for her family, and shares the hard lessons learned. Parenting styles in general, and of third culture kids in particular, have changed dramatically, prompting this timely and comprehensive reexamination of the challenges of parenting abroad.

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Anastasia M. Ashman is an American expat living in Turkey, award-winning writer and producer of intellectually-stimulating multimedia entertainment projects. Anastasia is the coeditor of the internationally bestselling expatriate literature collection Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey.

Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Seal Women's Travel)

An anthology that provides a window into Turkey from the perspective of 30 expatriates from six different nations, who established lives in Turkey for work, love, or adventure.

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Melissa Brayer Hess is an English professor and Registered Nurse. Melissa and her husband have lived and worked in Paris, France; Kaduna, Nigeria; Leningrad, U.S.S.R.; Oran, Algeria; Sinai, Egypt; and Kiev, Ukraine.

Patricia Linderman has an M.A. in German and works as a freelance writer, editor and translator from Spanish and German into English. Patricia lived and in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Santiago, Chile; Havana, Cuba; and Leipzig, Germany.

Together they wrote:

The Expert Expat: Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad

How to get organized quickly and find the support you need, pack and move without unnecessary stress, recognize and avoid cross-cultural pitfalls, maximize your success in learning the local language ,help children adjust and get the most out of their overseas experience, and much more.

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Danielle Barkhouse expatriated from Canada thirteen years ago, 'trailing' her husband through nine moves for his job with a multinational manufacturing company. Danielle has enjoyed traveling, taking photographs and geocaching in the 20 countries she has visited. Having lived in four nations, they recently returned from India and call Texas "home" with their third-culture son and their third-culture golden retriever.

The Expat Arc: An Expat's Journey Over Culture Shock

The Expat Arc is a collection of Danielle's journal entries detailing her expat arc path beginning with the honeymoon phase, hanging out in the rejection phase longer than desired and plowing her way into the phase of acceptance.

It's a very personal and detailed description of her journey over the arc of culture shock, identity crisis and settling in. It includes nuggets of her humor, mistakes and a few 'light bulb moments' about living abroad

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Jeanne A. Heinzer is a German/Swiss national, entrepreneur, former manager, coach and cross cultural training consultant. Jeanne has lived in six countries during the past 20 years as an expatriate herself, as a couple and as a family. She now lives with her husband and two children in Montclair, close to New York City.

Living Your Best Life Abroad: Resources, tips and tools for women accompanying their partners on an international move

Living your best life abroad is a self-coaching guide that will help you to change your life forever as you embrace living in a new country. It addresses all eight life areas that are crucial to your happiness and success abroad; living environment, relationship to your partner, family and friends, health, work, finances, personal growth and fun and leisure.

The book is written for Accompanying Partners who move with their partners all over the world, who wish to not only survive but also to thrive and enjoy every minute of their stay.

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