Memoirs Books

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...