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A Life Without Limits by Mereo Books

Severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering as a boy why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, and not the other way round. In his teens he began to campaign for rights for disabled people, and having battled his way through prejudice and the education system to become a Bachelor of Arts and a qualified social worker, he became a prominent figure in the fight for fair treatment for disabled people leading to the ground breaking Disability
Discrimination Act.

He went on to serve as Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission and became a founding commissioner of the subsequent Equality and Human Rights Commission. His extraordinary achievements were recognised by the award of an OBE, then a CBE and finally, in 2007, a knighthood. This is his remarkable and engaging story, completed by his wife Maureen and friends after his death in October 2017.

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An Indian in the House by Mereo Books

A unique, authoritative insight into the first Indians to break the race barrier and gain a foothold in British politics. Written by Lord Mohamed Sheikh.

For more than three centuries, from the East India Company’s first trade missions to Asia until the long-awaited granting of independence in 1947, India was controlled and exploited by the British Empire. Indians were not considered fit to have a say in the running of their own country, let alone to be given any measure of political power.

Over the final decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, four men helped to change that forever: Dadabhai Naoroji, Mancherjee Bhownaggree, Shapurji Saklatvala and Satyendra Sinha. These men were the first four Indians to achieve Parliamentary office in the United Kingdom, the first three as MPs, all for different parties, the last as a Cabinet Minister.

While you could scarcely find four more contrasting personalities, they had several vital points in common: all four men loved and fought for their country, all four shared a passion for justice and equity, and all four were highly motivated and fiercely intelligent. Between them they earned India, and Indians, a long-overdue respect in the West, and opened the door for many of their countrymen to be welcomed into the ranks of government in their wake. This book tells their stories.

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Poetry Plain

Eddie Thompson’s verses are based on his experiences, observations and thoughts about life, and are (mostly) delightfully brief and (often) very amusing – sometimes intentionally, he says. They cover every aspect of modern life from not being young any more to singing, football, the media, Richard III, socks, place names, Brexit, churches, forgetfulness and poetry itself. This is the fifth volume in the series.