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A Dog's Life
Author: Sylvia Ann Baxter
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
This true-life dog biography set in the late 1970s/80s on two outlying Shropshire farms, relating the compelling thirteen year long bond between a young woman and her Labrador dog, is delightfully different by way that it is told from the dog’s quirky and imaginative point of view, which makes it thoroughly entertaining and humorous throughout.
The story opens when Fan, with her ingenious, resourceful mind,... Read More |
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A Littleton Lad... in his own words
Author: Austen Hooker
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Austen Hooker ‘a Littleton Lad' spent his childhood on the family nursery surrounded by hay fields and skylarks in the middle of the Hampshire countryside. He takes us through his teenage war years of sorrow and laughter to a lifetime spent working with plants and flowers. He tells of his interest in sport, music and the countryside as well as his time as a TV and radio gardener. His life has been bound together by the love of his... Read More |
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A Matter Of Survival
Author: Lily Monadjemi
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99 £8.79
When Khatoon, met Shah Sultan Hussain Safavids “under most unusual circumstances” she was only a daring audacious fourteen years old girl whose large sparkling black eyes stole the shah’s heart. Soon she found her way to the Royal Andaroon becoming the most valued and envied wife of the Sultan. Then suddenly she was given as a gift to Fath Ali, the chief of the Gajar tribe and sent to Astarabad where... Read More |
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A Ticket To The Carnival
Author: Barrie Stacey
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
The author was born and raised on the south coast and, after a stint of National Service, left for London to follow his calling - entertainment in all its many guises. Barrie Stacey is a well known figure on the London entertainment scene and has worked in various aspects of the entertainment business for decades, proving that style never goes out of fashion.
Describing himself as being 'older than God' his working life... Read More |
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Broken Warrior
Author: Joy Mawby
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
When a 96-year-old Polish man, Konstanty Dzierżek, asks Joy Mawby for English lessons, little does she think that he will take her on a journey through the twentieth century.
Interwoven with Konstanty’s colourful memories of pre-war Russia and Poland are his own memoirs which record his adventures during and after the war. Illustrated throughout with photos from his album, his story is revealed with integrity and... Read More |
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Coping With Cowboys on Cote D'Azur
Author: Marina Mattiasson
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99
The path to fulfilling your biggest dreams is often a difficult one, as Marina and Roger Mattiasson discover in this hugely enjoyable read.
Their dream of leaving behind the cold climate of their native Sweden and opening a bed and breakfast on the sun-kissed coast of the South of France leads Marina and Roger on a great adventure. The renovation of the fantastic old house that they fall in love with is co-ordinated by the... Read More |
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David Lean's Dedicated Maniac - Memoirs of a Film Specialist
Author: Richard Torné & Eddie Fowlie
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99 £7.99
"From blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai and covering the Spanish countryside in fake snow during Doctor Zhivago…to being urinated on by Robert Mitchum, Eddie Fowlie – multifaceted film specialist, adventurer and all-round troubleshooter – led a remarkable career.
From modest beginnings in a quiet London suburb and armed with little more than bagfuls of confidence and a steely determination, he broke into the movie... Read More |
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Dirty Business
Author: David Hughes
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99 £7.99
Absolute dynamite.
A bible no one wanting to be successful should be without.
If Dragons’ Den was a lad’s mag it would be FHM – Dirty Business is an unputdownable copy of Razzle.
It’s the real stuff – the pure juice, undiluted.
David Hughes has created four highly successful businesses in the UK, including a high street retail empire, turning over £180 million, as well as an £80 million turnover... Read More |
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Domestic Science
Author: Jane Burdiak
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99 £4.79
Domestic Science is the sometimes intense, often whimsical, frequently moving and very appealing account of one year in the life of a food technology teacher, who is also a mother, wife and author. The domestic science of the title is a rich metaphor for the intricacies and complexities of family life in the twenty-first century.
Month by month, from January to December, we are allowed an intimate glimpse into all... Read More |
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Flygirl Adventures: An Autoflyography
Author: Anita Mays
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99
A candid, funny heart-warming account of one girl's struggle to achieve her dream - to fly! And it’s all here - the agonies and ecstasies of failure and triumph. A sparkly and captivating read.
Initially rejected for the job of an air hostess, she then learned to fly, became a flying instructor and subsequently an executive jet pilot for the world’s rich and famous and thereby offers us a unique glimpse into the world of... Read More |
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George and Me
Author: Jean Robinson
Format: Paperback
Price: £8.99 £7.19
When Sylvia’s dashing new husband, John, offers to whisk them from the 1950’s grime of city living to take the tenancy of a country pub, Sylvia dreams of an idyllic life in the Yorkshire Dales.
Sylvia, John and her brother, Robert arrive in Wharfedale to find The George at Hubberholme near-derelict. Without electricity or mains water, and only an ancient Aga to cook food, Sylvia embodies true Yorkshire grit and sets out to... Read More |
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Manicdotes - There's Madness In His Method
Author: Chris Joseph
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99 £6.39
Madness and genius are often said to be close
bedfellows, although the link between the two
is little understood.
Chris Joseph has known both extremes, and in
Manicdotes: There's Madness in His Method,
he lays bare his struggle with bi-polar disorder
and the condition's pendulum-like swing
between creative dynamism and dark despair.
After walking out of university and briefly
dabbling with life as a... Read More |
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Mum is in Charge
Author: John O'Neill
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
The story 'Mum is in Charge' is based on true events, covering the period 1939 to 1945, with some flashbacks to earlier years. It is related by youngest child of the family, with a host of interesting, exciting, challenging moments. There is a close encounter with death, the controversial friendship with an old lady ghost, sadness, hardships including school bullying, which developed into what all families need, a bonding as a... Read More |
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My Haunting Hounds
Author: Georgette Noellat
Format: Paperback
Price: £6.99
My Haunting Hounds paints a vivid picture of the author’s childhood, and how it is that she prefers the company of animals to humans, in particular dogs, from her first encounter with an Irish Wolfhound, to eventually becoming guardian to one of these magnificent animals. Abused by her father, he tells her not to talk to anyone about what has happened so, with the logic of a child, she will only speak to animals.
In places... Read More |
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No Ordinary Woman
Author: Valerie Byron
Format: Paperback
Price: £9.99 £7.00
Valerie Byron’s back story reads like a script pitched at the TV and movie stars whose lives and loves she shared in the swinging sixties. But it is true – and told with all the candour and raw honesty of a beautiful woman remembering heady days and passionate nights with celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic.
She was part of Britain's ground-breaking ITV company, Granada, which made global successes of Coronation... Read More |
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One Wild Flower
Author: Louise Schweitzer
Format:
Price: £13.99
Louise Schweitzer’s fascinating and beautiful book shines a light on the often misunderstood but much-loved and delightful genre of Nonsense writing.
By focussing on its golden age during the mid-nineteenth century and, in particular, the work of three of the great Nonsense writers of the time * Edward Lear, WS Gilbert, and Lewis Carroll * the reader is taken on a voyage of discovery.
Schweitzer looks in detail at... Read More |
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Orpheus Odyssey
Author: Bernadette Seymour
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Does life get any better than living on a yacht cruising on the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas? It’s difficult to believe that the freedom to travel where the fancy takes you could cause so many ups and downs. Dudley Seymour and his wife Bernadette are living the dream - or are they? Having lived aboard their yacht ‘Orpheus’ in Greek waters for eighteen months, the two decide that it is time to embark on an adventure by sailing into... Read More |
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Solid Black and Liquid Gold
Author: Gerry Staley
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Fifty years ago, the Middle East was sitting on a vast, barely-tapped resource: oil - black gold. A small army of men was assigned to prospect for the black stuff and sent out into the deserts of of Oman, Libya, Iraq and Iran. It was an 'invasion' that would transform nations and bring seismic political change to the region.
Armed with a Winchester .22, a BSc from the University of Wales and a zest for living life to the... Read More |
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Table for One, Sir?
Author: John Flint
Format: Paperback
Price: £4.99 £3.24
In this deeply poignant and personal memoir, John Flint recounts the experience of his wife Patricia’s diagnosis with cancer, her death, and his efforts to readjust to life afterwards.
John uses his own experiences to explore some of the wider issues about how society responds to terminal illness, death, and widowhood. But, in a book that is touching, warm, and wise, John focuses on some of the realities of each stage from... Read More |
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The Bucket Man
Author: James Neville
Format: Paperback
Price: £10.99
Unable to face a life in the Services, after resigning his commission, the author is disowned by his father. Hot-headed and penniless he is forced to make a life for himself in the liberated world of the 1960s.
After a chance meeting with a woman on a train, seduction and marital intrigue follow, leading him into the world of antiques, altering his life for good. One adventure follows
another as, before he is thirty, his... Read More |
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