Memoirs Books

This book is a personal story of life on board aircraft carriers during WWII. The author starts his story reminiscing about joining the British Navy and then continues with battles fought and time spent in various ports around the world."The morning of...

Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom is about an English emigrant to Australia beginning almost 50 years ago in 1966, until his marriage in 1977. The stories revolve around his work as an electrician in this new country and his travels throughout the world...

Khoa Nam Tran was born with a grin he can't wipe off. He's likely to smile in the face of a lion's roar while joking about its bad breath. Along with his inexhaustible humour, Khoa Nam Tran is a rare survivor. With a healthy dose of muscle, a truckload...

This unforgettable story has become an Australian classic describing how an Australian bush girl saved the lives of 1,000 Polish and Jewish children in a daring escape from the Nazis. This updated edition contains an important eye-witness account of the...

Leaving Macquarie Island and the 1979 expeditioners was a mixed bag ofemotions. I witnessed the grieving of some of the expeditioners from the loss oneof their mates, a biologist. I felt for them and wondered what wintering on theIsland was going to be...

Emma McAuliffe is a certified NLP coach who has been supporting people all over the world to self-heal from chronic conditions. Emma came to a point of desperation herself in her early 20's, after being diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition...

Create and Grow Your Own Damn Wealth!My Romance With CryptoHave you ever heard of, or been curious about 'Bitcoin'?Have you found financial stresses are building in your life?Does it seem too techie and overwhelming?This is my personal journey from where...

As a young child of divorced parents, Annette Pearson's dreams were high in the sky, filled with mansions, corvettes, and diamonds. She lived in the land of sunshine and trendy plastic dolls. She believed, with all her heart, that whatever her...

"I left my home for a reason; security and dignity are worth it"Ali is a Sudanese man who fled his country to seek refuge in Libya, where he was treated as a slave, beaten close to death, payed ransom to militia and witnessed many murders...

At the time of being born, there was no such thing as the wonderful NHS as we know it today, hence my flying start.After that my life has been quite a roller coaster, I do hope you enjoy my life experiences with me, no one was hurt, only my pride mixed...

A detailed memoir of a highly traumatic time where a fight for life was taken on by an observant and caring family, a professional hospital team and the patient himself. This story starts with a dramatic awakening in a hospital bed with, initially no...

Who are you going to call if it all goes wrong on holiday?Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane. His job is to bring people back to Britain after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong...

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea?Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's now sailing off around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for...

Diagnosed with breast cancer while on holiday in Japan, editor, one-time environmental activist and wannabe politician Isla distracts herself with tourist adventures - including snorkelling in the South China Sea, learning about slipper etiquette and...

On the night of Kevin Cockburn's arrest, he lay face down in the back of a Mariah police van. His captures spoke excitedly, "We've got a big score here; you're going down for years, mate!" What unimaginable circumstances must have brought Kevin to this...

'A window into a time of raw energy and rough edges, Deb Price paints a vivid picture of life in the squats of South London. By turns amusing and alarming, but always engaging, we accompany a teenager as she navigates her way to womanhood in a...

Partner pregnant. Less than nine months to prepare. Holy s**t - you're going to be a daddy!Now, a soon-to-be first-time father is charting a course through the perilous and choppy waters of living with a pregnant woman. He's dodging hormonal right hooks,...

Don't Do This At Home is a collection of short stories of innocent mischief relating to, mostly, my youth. I was born in 1949 and have always argued that people of my generation had the best of times. Jobs were plentiful; there were no personal computers...

27 Days in November - Daisy's Story could not be written by Daisy herself. During her life, Daisy has recovered from a malignant brain tumour, a fat embolism in her lung that developed after a simple broken leg, which caused acute respiratory failure...

A roller - coaster of an affair, but its more than that: it adds to our knowledge of the relationship between the welfare state and the voluntary sector; the attitudes towards women in society and the action between political and popular debates; plus,...

"It's an incredible collection of stories and I hope everyone gets a chance to pick up this book." Michelle McManus, presenter of 'Our lives' on BBC Radio Scotland. See BBC Scotland website to hear the full interview first broadcast Sat Aug 7 2021 at...

A true story of survival against impossible odds.1905. My grandfather Karl Jauram, the son of an Estonian peasant farmer, leaves home and travels south to Ukraine in search of work.  1914. It begins. World War One. The Russian...

Nacho NovoWhen I left Spain for my Scottish adventure back in 2001, I could not have dreamt just how my career would take off. Six great years I spent at Rangers, making friends for life on and off the pitch. Yes, I won a league medal, scored...

Diary of a self-taught MUA takes you on a journey of a young girl who was passionate about athletics and aspired to be a lawyer but got her big breakthrough the self-taught skill of drawing an eyebrow.  Her passion for makeup was conceived after an...

As a young girl, Razina Theba makes her way every day to the tiny family flat on Vorster Street in Fordsburg. It is here, just outside of the Johannesburg city centre, where she grows up, playing in the Yard with countless cousins, learning to enjoy...

'Jane Evans is a name that has earned enormous respect in Early Childhood Development circles. The fact that ECD is an essential pillar in our country's programme of educational reform owes much to Jane and other activists of the time - many of whom are...

I lost my left eye to cancer at the age of two. I haven't let this deter me from working as a steamroller driver, ski racing coach, coffee bean delivery man, wooden boat shipwright, bicycle mechanic, whale watching skipper, fish farmer, vineyard...

In a painfully true, brutally honest, tell-all, author Christina Vitagliano recounts her frightening nights as a child when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom. This honest coming-of-age memoir begins in the late '60s and spans 30 years,...

Quarterfinalist for the 2021 BookLife Prize"It is apparent that the author has carefully crafted each line of prose. Her words are meaning-laden and potent, with not one wasted word or syllable." -Publisher's Weekly reviewer for the Booklife PrizeIn this...