Wesley Baker

Wesley Baker

@wesleybaker.bsky.social

#1 Bestselling Author, Lifestyle Lover, Business Leader, Founder/CEO, Surfer, Podcaster, and Traveller with a diverse perspective, and, I hope, a good father of two. Featured in Forbes plus others. https://www.wesleybaker.com

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❄️📖 A Season in the Snow is out now on Amazon! I’m delighted to share my new novel with you, taking you to the snowy Austrian Alps for a season of romance, friendship and new beginnings. Find out more here: wesleybaker.com #NewBookRelease #Bookstagram #BookTok #WinterReads #WinterRomance

If Mallorca is where you are heading, Echoes in Mallorca knows the island from the other side of the holiday: the 1980s resort life I lived as a young holiday rep. A true account, and the first of my Echoes Travel Memoirs. Discover it at wesleybaker.com 📖

Ever picked up a book for its title alone? ☀ Spanish Sunshine: Untold Echoes from a 1992 Summer is my second travel memoir, and every word of that title is honest. Untold stories from one season on the Costa Brava. Order a signed copy at wesleybaker.com

I write three kinds of book: travel memoirs, novels and spy fiction. All three keep coming back to the same subject, the moments that change a life. The Echoes Travel Memoirs are true. Sunshine Seasons and the James Barker Files are fiction.

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Far from the crowded breaks, the loudest thing in the water is the next set rolling in. 🌊 That quiet is the experience. It's why we go looking for spots off the beaten path. And it's open to everyone, first-timers included. #OceanFever #SurfTravel

Echoes of a Season takes you to Catalonia in the summer of 1992, the golden age of package holidays. I tell the season as I lived it as a young travel rep, with misadventures, late nights and whirlwind romances. Order a signed copy at wesleybaker.com ☀

Three facts about Echoes in Andalusia. It's a true memoir, the third in my Echoes Travel Memoirs. It's set in Andalusia and on the Costa del Sol in the late 1980s. I was there as an overseas travel rep. Order a signed copy at wesleybaker.com 📖

Costa del Sol, late 1980s. Most people know it from the guest's side: the hotel, the beach, the fortnight. Echoes in Andalusia is my memoir of working there as an overseas travel rep, the third in my Echoes Travel Memoirs. Discover the book: wesleybaker.com ☀📖

❄ One winter. One village. One novel that carries the whole season. A Season in the Snow, the next Sunshine Seasons novel, set in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria, in December 1984. Snow over the rooftops, the Christmas markets glowing. £12.99. Discover the book. 📖

Four words arrive on a phone in Barcelona: Are you still watching? That single message is where The Spy Who Found Me turns, and it drags James Barker back into a game he believed was long behind him. My spy fiction. I'll say nothing more. 📖

Some books suit the cold months because they bring their own warmth with them. A Season in the Snow is one of those, a winter romance from my Sunshine Seasons series set in St. Johann in Tirol in 1984. ❄ Discover the book here: wesleybaker.com

Three notes for anyone starting Echoes in Andalusia. It's the third Echoes memoir, set in the late 1980s. The setting moves from the Costa del Sol to whitewashed villages and golden hills. The mood is lively and emotional at once. wesleybaker.com ☀

England, 1984. A place at university waiting, the future settled before it has begun. That is where A Season in the Sun opens, with Thomas Bennett and a summer job on the Costa Brava that was never in the plan. Discover the book here: wesleybaker.com ☀📖

A fresh start, a snowy village, and a love that feels like coming home ❄️ Save this winter escape for your next cozy read. #romancebooks #winterreads #snowyreads #alps #bookpromo #fictionbooks #fictionsreads #booklover #booklovers #cozyreads #winterfiction #adventurereads #romantification #newbook

A Season in the Snow is a winter romance that does not stay indoors. Ski runs at dawn sit right beside the candlelit inns. It's the next Sunshine Seasons novel, set in St. Johann in Tirol in December 1984. Discover it at wesleybaker.com ❄

Some books suit the daytime. Echoes of a Season is my memoir of the summer of 1992, a young travel rep in Catalonia. It reads differently after midnight. The late nights, the friendships, the romances. And the goodbyes that linger. ☀📖

A Season in the Snow gives a reader three things to hold on to: December 1984, the real Alpine village of St. Johann in Tirol, and its place after A Season in the Sun in the Sunshine Seasons series. Discover it at wesleybaker.com ❄

1986, London. James Barker is a young travel executive on an ordinary lunch break. A chance encounter brings choices that can't be undone. 2018, Barcelona. No longer a spy, he runs a rising med-tech company. Discover The Spy Who Found Me at wesleybaker.com 📖

My three series stand apart, so there is no wrong first book. Autumn is a good time to settle into one. Choose by mood: true travel memoirs, romantic fiction or spy thrillers. Then keep the other two for a change. Explore all three at wesleybaker.com

Before the Costa Brava and before Andalusia, there was Mallorca. Echoes in Mallorca is my true story of arriving from Whitstable in the 1980s as a young holiday rep. It's where the Echoes Travel Memoirs begin. Discover it at wesleybaker.com 📖

Andalusia has a character all its own. In Echoes in Andalusia, the region takes the lead. It's my third Echoes Travel Memoir, all true. Beyond the coast lie whitewashed villages, golden hills and a proud, timeless south. Read it at wesleybaker.com

Some places stay with you because of their character. For me, that place is Andalusia in the late 1980s. Echoes in Andalusia is a true account of my season as an overseas travel representative on the Costa del Sol. Discover the book at wesleybaker.com ☀

A Season in the Snow is a novel about belonging. St. Johann in Tirol, December 1984. Seasonal workers, local families and fellow travellers gather for the season, with one person who makes all the difference. Discover it at wesleybaker.com ❄

A series called Sunshine Seasons sounds like summer reading, so it's easy to save A Season in the Snow for a sunny holiday. Understandable, given the name. It's a winter romance set in St. Johann in Tirol, December 1984. Discover it at wesleybaker.com ❄

Echoes of a Season never held every story from the Costa Brava summer of 1992. Spanish Sunshine is where the rest of them went. Moped mishaps, and the quieter turning points I only understood much later. Out now, for anyone not ready to leave that coast. ☀

What if one summer could change everything? That question sits at the heart of A Season in the Sun, my Sunshine Seasons novel. As the evenings draw in this October, a summer story feels like a good place to escape to. Discover it at wesleybaker.com ☀

Some plans hold up perfectly well at noon and start to wobble around one in the morning. England, 1984. Thomas Bennett takes a summer job on the Costa Brava, and starts asking where he truly belongs. A Season in the Sun keeps that question company.

Some restaurants send the chef out to the dining room. Same food, yet the distance disappears. When I sell a signed copy through my own website, it goes from me to the reader with no middle step. The trade calls it direct-to-consumer author sales.

Before it became anyone's story, the Costa Brava in the 1980s was a place and a time I knew. A Season in the Sun is a novel. My memories of that coast were reshaped into fiction, and the people in it are invented. More in my journal at wesleybaker.com ☀

1986, London. A young travel executive steps out for his lunch break. By 2018, James Barker is a med-tech CEO in Barcelona, and his life looks orderly and controlled. That order is what The Spy Who Found Me slowly takes apart. 🕵♂📖 #SpyThriller

In December the lights in St. Johann in Tirol come on early, and the mountains go quiet under the snow. Now that the evenings are drawing in here at home, I think that particular Alpine quiet is worth seeking out.

Sunshine Seasons is a series about friendship and first love. Sea light in one book, a winter village in the other. That's where the friendships get tested. The sea and the sun, or the snow. ☀❄ wesleybaker.com/series/sunshine-seasons

England, 1984. Thomas Bennett has a place at university waiting. Then an opportunity takes him to the Costa Brava as an overseas rep for Sunshine Holidays. A Season in the Sun is a Sunshine Seasons novel, pure fiction. Discover it at wesleybaker.com

A memoir made from real Andalusian years. Echoes in Andalusia is the third Echoes book, and perhaps the most personal. The late 1980s. I was working the Costa del Sol as an overseas travel representative. Andalusia never quite loosens its hold. ☀

The Spy Who Found Me is really two stories about one man, thirty-two years apart: James Barker in London in 1986, and in Barcelona in 2018. A love that never died links them. James Barker Files fiction. Discover it at wesleybaker.com 📖

With a series called Sunshine Seasons, it's easy to save every book for summer. I blame the cheerful name. A Season in the Snow is the next novel, a winter romance set in St. Johann in Tirol, December 1984. Order a signed copy at wesleybaker.com ❄

Britain, Spain, the USA. More than forty years of building businesses abroad, some of the earliest in the Mediterranean, in the golden age of overseas travel. The coastlines that turned up later on the page were worlds I had lived in first.

Many readers assume a signed book means being in the right place on the right afternoon. There is a simpler route: order a signed copy directly from my website. A Season in the Snow is the one I'd most like to see given this winter. wesleybaker.com ❄

Before the Costa Brava, before Andalusia, there was Mallorca. In the 1980s I stepped off a plane at Palma, a young lad from Whitstable starting out as a holiday rep. A completely different world. Echoes in Mallorca is where the memoirs begin.