On February 3rd, 2015, my oldest sister, Susie Will Stallings Brooks died of complication of a stroke. This for me, her baby brother was a devastating blow in my life. Not even my family knew at th...więcej »
High school sweethearts, Joe and Amy, grew up together from the sweet age of 16. They lived their lives to the fullest; travelling around Australia, South East Asia, Indonesia, Mentawai Islands,...więcej »
1977 was, for one fourteen year old boy the year that changed his life - the year he was diagnosed with epilepsy.Glyn Marston woke up in the middle of the road early one August morning an...więcej »
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the second world war and then post-war austerity, this story never slows down, with Joyce continually on the move, physically and emotionally.From age...więcej »
“History is a Set of Lies Agreed Upon” is a collection of biographical sketches of the French military and political leader Napoléon Bonaparte, by various authors. Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821) wa...więcej »
Would you send your teenager into the Alaska wilderness to work for people you never met? On June 9, 1973, 16-year-old Michael Travis put an advertisement in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner looki...więcej »
This is the autobiography of a thoroughly undistinguished Norfolk Peer of the Realm in his late nineties; but the only Peer (ever) with a Cauliflower Ear and a price on his head. Admittedly the ...więcej »
Part manual of handy hints, part practical guide, and above all a humorous personal diary, A Tin of Tomatoes and a Tiny Scooter is a tale of what typically befalls those who choose to restore a ...więcej »
Ken Phillips enlisted at the start of World War 2 and joined the Rifle Brigade. He was sent to North Africa where he was part of an anti-tank division engaged in a rolling battl...więcej »
Jerre Wills was in his late teens when he began feeling something tugging at his shirt-tail, and finally pulling with the force of a 300 pound barn-door halibut heading for deep water on the end...więcej »
This is the story of a sixth-grade social studies project that took on a life of its own and captivated a family for more than a year. As an entry for the National History Day competition, the stor...więcej »
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), more commonly known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English journalist, essayist, critic, and novelist most famous for his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949) a...więcej »
Solatle Lu - an ordinary oriental, an author of several extraordinary books.Is he an independent thinker, or only a misfit? From this book, his own sketch book, you may find the answer fo...więcej »
Originally published in 1933, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a memoir in two parts by English author George Orwell. His first full-length work, it chronicles the time he spent living in pove...więcej »
From the famous stunt girl reporter who wrote the well-known exposé, Ten Days in a Mad-House, this 1888 travelogue details Nellie Bly's experience of living in Mexico in the late ninet...więcej »
A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold War.In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang regime on suspicion of being a Chines...więcej »
On 22 March 2020, seven days into lockdown Cyril Duff started an isolation diary on Facebook. The aim was to cheer up family and friends during a difficult period. They shared it with their fami...więcej »
"Has all the ingredients of the best memoirs: an exotic setting, quirky characters, and cultural discord ultimately redeemed by love and acceptance."-Claire Chao, author ...więcej »
Jingles, Jaunts and Jiggery Pokery is the second volume of A Wizard's Tale. It continues the story of Dan Dobson's globe-trotting career as journalist, jazz guitarist and magician.więcej »