Going Bananas: My Trailing Career (Volume 1)
Europe is the largest consumer of bananas on the planet, but what is the true price of bananas? Pauline Isabel Dowling found out when she took a container ship to New Zealand. Fate intervened, and she now trails, going to work with her mariner husband, Captain Stuart MacCormick Ross. This book describes her first–and last–journey on a banana boat, the MV Avelona Star.

ISBN: 978-0-9954874-6-8

Sleeping with the Captain: My Trailing Career (Volume 2)
In Sleeping with the Captain, Pauline Isabel Dowling resumes her trailing career, this time aboard the MV Scottish Star with her husband, Captain Stuart MacCormick Ross. His job is to deliver deciduous fruit while keeping the ship, the crew, and the cargo in good order.
Not a sex manual, then.

ISBN:978-1-9993668-1-0

I Would Like to Have Been a Nun: The Story of Isabel Cecily Dowling
Based on the diary her family kept in her final years, the story of Isabel Cecily O’Regan (1907-95) highlights the lottery that is care of the elderly and infirm today. Hers is the story of her family’s arrival in New Zealand, the power of the clergy, women’s health – particularly mental health – and how few choices women had before the pill.

ISBN: 978-0-9954874-4-4