Biography / Autobiography
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Bipolar Parent
Bipolar parent is an intensely detailed autobiography about a little girl who is trapped mentally by her father's extreme and abusive behaviour towards her mother. Is he struggling with Bipolar? Is it genetic? Is it passed on to her own...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2011
Both Sides of the Sheets
Annie Armitage was a successful career nurse, with a dedication to quality nursing and care as taught during her rigorous training in the 1960s. Taking her skills, Annie eventually worked as a consultant to the Department of Health, advising on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/01/2011
A Cumbrian Lad
A Cumbrian Lad takes you on a journey that began in a small West Cumberland village at a time when television was still to replace the simple childhood pastimes of Cannon and Jack Shine Yer Light. It describes the craft...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 14/08/2007
One Love Two Colours
Bobby Smith and Margaret Oshindele-Smith
‘It will never work.’‘They are just too different.’‘Sleep with a white man? No thanks.’‘Look at the state of him, those clothes!’Just some of the comments directed at Margaret and Bobby Smith during their ten-year marriage. Why? Because...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 17/12/2007
That Terrible Shadowing
This highly original art historical faction novel probes the mystery of Caravaggio's death in the context of a rivetingly told time travel adventure. We meet face to face with the great 16th-17th century Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/07/2009
View From The Surgery
This book brings together for the first time the amusing, poignant and often whimsical writings of that loveable old duffer, Dr Ken B Moody. Dr Moody, a GP in the beautiful Scottish Borders, writes of his experiences in a regular...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 02/05/2008
The Son from the West - From Comfort To Danger Zone
This is the compelling yarn of a young man of noble birth who jettisoned the expectations of his famous banking family to strike out on his own. Ignoring the airline advertisements, he set out on an aging steamer for Thailand...
Format: Hardback - Released: 15/07/2007
Be Bold
Frederick Rosier, David Rosier
Towards the end of a long and distinguished career, Sir Fred Rosier was persuaded by his son David to write his autobiography. He did so and the result is an extremely engaging and enlightening account of his life to the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/05/2011
Single White Failure
When a young and successful Max Hunter finds himself at the bitter end of a long-term relationship, he''s eager to find someone new, something better. With everything to offer, finding a potential partner should be simple. Shouldn''t it?
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2005
For Poulton and England - The Life and Times of an Edwardian Rugby Hero
An outstanding leader and personality in every respect, Poulton captained England to what is now called a 'Grand Slam' in 1914 the last season before the First World War. Once war was declared he spent seven months training in England...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/11/2009
Late Autumn - A Novella
This short story is a vignette depicting what can happen in the late autumn of life. Hope, joy and love; despair and loss; doubt, disappointment and disbelief; memories which at times seem hard to bear. Old acquaintances appear, confusion and...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
Walking Back
In the assembly hall of a Cheshire grammar school, a fair-haired boy, illuminated by a shaft of light, catches the eye of a dark-haired girl. The year is 1942, and this glance between Jim and Jean leads to teenage love...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 15/10/2007
Why Do the People Hate Me So?
The era over which Stanley Baldwin presided became known as the ‘Baldwin Age’. Yet, despite a dozen or so biographies and several portraits in the memoirs of the great and the good, he remains little remembered today. Nonetheless the country...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Shakespeare My Butt: From "Marsupial Elvis" to "No Place", on the Trail of the Pointless Quest
Everyone should have their own specific stupid project sometime in their life.”This is the tale of one such project -- an odyssey exploring some of the more bizarrely named places in Britain, created by a man who maybe took it...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/03/2005
A Fine Line
Bridget is married to Joseph from Switzerland. They have two young children, and both take the decision to follow Dr Lynn's advice and Bridget is admitted to a psychiatric unit for intensive therapy to try to peel the layers off...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
Goodbye Mommy: Memoirs of a Survivor
A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional family in the United States during the 1970s and 80s, Lora Lee describes how she responded to a chaotic world by closing in on herself and building a shell around her, a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
'What are You Thinking of, Dad?'
Nick Wisbey was 14 when his 49 year old father, Stan, was struck down by the first in a series of strokes that were to leave him speechless and unable to communicate verbally. Instantaneously, the first stroke relegated Stan from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
No Easy Road
Josie told me she was murdered. When you're a lonely six-year-old, you don't really understand what that means. All you know is you're happy to have a friend to play with. Patsy Whyte caught glimpses of an invisible world growing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/2009
Out Of The Flames
Out of the Flames charts, with lyricism and moving honesty, the remarkable triumph over tragedy of one ordinary man, living through extraordinary times.On the evening of the 7th of December 1971, Philip Coogan's life changed overnight when a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
Lest I Forget A Chequered Life
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Memoirs with a difference – packed with adventures and immediate first-hand experienced history and natural thinking, with few punches pulled. Written in a straightforward readable style with no concessions to pretentious narration, this is as it really happened. The...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/12/2011
Bridging The Gap: Reminiscences
An idyllic childhood in the pre-war Polish countryside, followed by the horrors of the war, the battles with the SS in the Polish Home Army, the Warsaw Uprising and three weeks in the Gestapo's death cell. After joining the British...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/12/2007
Some Better Days Poems and Stories Mostly of the Scottish Highlands
A collection of poetry and short stories, in three parts, that celebrates the author's life in the Scottish Highlands and how observantly he worked with nature's varied wildlife there. Part One is a collection of poems about his early years...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Mackem Mayhem
‘The child is the father of the man’, a familiar phrase, yet it is really only a proposition. For this Mackem boy who grew up in Sunderland it contains a psychological truth. Robert Wood has been led to examine his...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/10/2004
Notes from the Eye of the Storm A Memoir
All my life I have been exposed to half-truths delivered by traditional religious, social and government institutions. By the time I graduated from college, I knew I had to start from scratch and let life’s experiences give me the education...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2011
Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey
Sarah Anderson was born in 1947. At the age of 10 she developed synovial sarcoma, an extremely rare but virulent cancer of the soft tissue which led, six months later, to her arm being amputated. She read Chinese at London...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 06/05/2008
To Bella, Nelly & Jos: letters from Their Grandmother About Long Ago & Other Places
These letters evoke not just a personal world of private and family memory but one that will be recognised by anybody who was a child in England during the 1940s and 1950s. Post-war London was a shabby place where the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
Boozers, Ballcocks And Bail
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When Steve and his partner Wilf set up their legal practice, they aren’t expecting the high life – 1980s Rotherham Magistrate’s Court is no Old Bailey. But they aren’t expecting quite such weird and wonderful lowlifes, either… Boozers, Ballcocks &...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/09/2006
Hornes Down Under Part One
One mad family, struggling to get their lives back together, drive a campervan down the coast of Australia...with disastrous consequences. And Part Two? That’s coming later....the same story but this time from her point of view.
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Other people’s lives are always fascinating, whether it’s Jordan’s latest autobiography, or the story of sporting heroes like Wayne Rooney or Lewis Hamilton, or the lives of our great soldiers like General Sir Peter de La Billiere.
Lovewriting presents some remarkable stories for you to enjoy – from the account of Bobby and Margaret's love affair across the racial divide, to the extraordinary story of Sarah Anderson who lost an arm to cancer at the age of 10, but triumphed over adversity.
From Robert Wood's fascinating account of growing up in Sunderland, to Dr Ken Moody's charming tales from the surgery.
Lovewriting lets you discover new authors of biography and autobiography, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
