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Going for a Spin

Going for a Spin

It was Gordon Sharp’s experiences as a six-year-old boy in the Glasgow Blitz that first set him on the path towards a medical career. By the time Gordon had left school he had two firm goals: to specialise in aviation medicine, and to try his hand at broadcasting. He managed both in style, becoming Commanding Officer of the RAF’s Aviation Medicine Training Centre and later Head of Division at the Institute of Aviation Medicine. During his time in the RAF Medical Branch he carried out pioneering work in the development of safer systems for aircrew. As a member of the ITN studio team during the Apollo space programme in the 1970s, Gordon became a familiar face to TV audiences. Then, just when he thought life held no more surprises, he found himself flying high  in a different sense when he was invited to serve as ‘Physician Extraordinary’ to Her Majesty The Queen Mother. Going for a spin is Gordon’s fascinating and entertaining story.

God's Sorely Tested Child

God’s Sorely Tested Child

Though the name of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was little known during her lifetime, she is now recognised, more than 160 years after her death, as a significant German poet. Her work is linguistically challenging and her imagery taxing, but a study of it can prove richly rewarding. God’s Sorely Tested Child aims to open up this opportunity to English-speaking readers. Conscious that it would be both difficult and inappropriate to attempt to separate Droste-Hülshoff’s work from the woman, her life and the religious climate in which she lived, Marion Tymms, a scholar of German literature for more than half a century, has written God’s Sorely Tested Child to offer new insight into the author’s life and work, focusing on her poetic cycle Das Geistliche Jahr (The Spiritual Year) and presenting a complete translation of it.

God's Last Word

God's Last Word

There are many who believe that the book of revelation is too difficult to understand. If this is so, why then did god reveal to many of his servants the need to read it and also to understand what he has given us. The serious reader will recognise that there is much in this book that is quite different from any other portion of scripture. We must however appreciate that this is God’s final message and as such there is nothing that he will change in any way. He remains the unchangeable almighty lord of all. It is only mankind that changes. The last chapter of this special book reveals absolutely essential teaching concerning the trinity, and this is that the lord god, the lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all unique attributes of the Triune god. In this final chapter, the lord god warns us of our absolutely urgent need to be ready, and gives the final severe warning – “surely I come quickly”. This uniqueness of the book of revelation is vastly different from any other book that has ever been written. It stands alone. It reveals god’s plan for the future and warns us of the terrible consequences of those who ignore the rightful claim of our Almighty holy god.

God, Creation, History and Faith

God, Creation, History and Faith

Peter Heyden had a conventional Christian upbringing, but after the trials of adult life had begun to test his faith in the Church he began to wonder about the basis of modern Western religious belief and worship in its various forms. He set out to find the answers to some challenging questions about the foundations of Christianity and the origins of the Bible. If you have ever wondered why we worship God the way we do and where our beliefs about Jesus and his Disciples, the Holy Trinity, the Resurrection and many other aspects of faith come from, God, Creation, History and Faith will prove fascinating reading. The author’s findings will engage both the committed Christian – of whatever denomination – and the sceptic.

Gifted and Anointed

Gifted and Anointed

Whatever gifts you have been blessed with by God, you cannot fully realise their value until you become one of the Anointed. In his latest book, Pastor Oghenethoja Umuteme explains how you may become Anointed in order to excel in your purpose on earth and carry out God’s purpose. Gifted and Anointed is an insightful and revelation-packed teaching about the character of the Melchizedek Anointing Order. Pastor Umuteme explains how anointing brings God’s care and protection and attracts the spirit of God. Being anointed will enable you to succeed better in your chosen path in life as well as to serve God better. Memoirs has also published Pastor Umuteme’s last three books, The Man God Made, Aspects of Marriage and Leadership: An Eagle Eye Perspective.

Life in Bits

A Life in Bits

A Life in Bits is the moving story of one man’s battle with bipolar disorder, a condition whose devastating consequences are still not fully appreciated by the world at large. Charles McMullen’s battle with manic depression, as it is often known, began with a nervous breakdown at the age of nineteen.

In his twenties, the suicide of his brother, his own divorce and the loss of his job and his home put him inside a psychiatric hospital. Yet despite the periods of appalling despair and the continued setbacks, Charles can still write at the end of the book ‘Overall, it’s been a pretty happy life’.

This inspirational book will be of great interest to anyone who is afflicted by bipolar disorder, or knows one of the many people – roughly one in 25 of the population – who are.

Genesis Weapon

Genesis Weapon

Due to Link-soo-shan’s efforts a wormhole system is established between Jupiter and the Three Worlds that orbit Icarus. Centuries later a thriving civilization begins to grow on the Three Worlds. But then, suddenly and without warning the connection is severed, lasting centuries. An alien weapon of mass destruction arrives at the newly settled worlds with the chilling statement ”I am Toarvak 6, destroyer of worlds, servant of the Kresh. You are not Kresh. Toarvak 7 has been informed. I am the Will and the Way. You must all die. Purity will be maintained”. Something brings Toarvak 6, the ancient agent of death to an abrupt halt, but the Three Worlds are reduced to scrabbling through the ruins of the old civilization. Far out on the fringes of this galactic arm is a far greater menace then the Kresh destroyer. A telepathic freak of nature that lives inside and controls sentient life and animals is slowly rebuilding an empire. Death is no escape from the Goss.

Genesis Search

Genesis Search

One day the Andromeda galaxy will collide with ours. What if it was deliberate? What if the impending collision has been speeded up, so that it will threaten the whole civilisation in the Milky Way and destroy them all? What will the Council of Worlds do to prevent this happening? If the Kresh and the Gnathe have been travelling back in time to rescue alien civilizations from the deliberate destabilisation of their stars, before the Harvester can feed on the extinguished life force, an ancient enemy has been formed! To combat this menace, a search through time is instigated to find those who waged war against the Goss. The galactic civilization of the Milky Way move stars and worlds into a globular cluster and launches it towards the greater Magellanic cloud to escape the impact of the galaxies leaving the time-fished aliens to face the Harvester. Link-soo-shan gets involved with genetically engineering a new type of human being that can see into the future. Kamiel sends an expedition composed of useful aliens, to the Andromeda galaxy to free the intelligent species living there from the yoke of the Harvester. In doing this he creates potential world minds and in doing so, he creates a galactic society bound by the telepathic abilities of the Goss that can control wormholes. In time he launches an armada of Toarvaks against the energy being that feeds off the life force of sapient species.

Genesis Debt

Genesis Debt

Genesis Debt is a sequel to Genesis 2. Long after the sun has entered its red giant stage, the human race is recreated by nannite Guardians on a Jupiter that has had its great gas mantle stripped away. Instead of a gas giant the nannite crew find a seeded world teaming with life on a super continent that stretches from pole to pole. Several years after the defeat of the Tyrant, Ender-whann-soo’s Brood-mother daughters devise a way to reach out to the people of Earth six million years into the past. In doing so, the riddle of the Gnathe’s existence on Jupiter will at last be explained and the possibility of saving the human and ape civilisation from the danger of the expanding sun become a reality. To do this will mean using the airship again to find a large time-distorting crystal that was once hidden under Jupiters Red Spot. The resurrection of the deposed Empress can lead to an alternative reality that could create a paradox in time. The blood debt of the Gnathe will be paid in full or Link-soo-shan’s revenge will destroy them all. ‘The Genesis Debt’ will be paid by the Gnathe.

Genesis 3 - science

Genesis 3 – A New Beginning

There is a machine intelligence left over by the Harvester’s actions that is settling solar systems and obliterating life, in its expansion of territory. An alien people sent self-replicating probes to planets orbiting nearby stars and never had the chance to settle these worlds. The sentient survivors of the war against the Harvester form a strange alliance with one of the Collectors to try and defeat the Janis probes. This being becomes the ‘Farmer’ that spreads sentient life so that it can absorb and store them for a purpose of its own. In the past, one hundred thousand light-years away from where the Harvester slept uneasily something watched the wormhole activity with curious senses. The plan had been to cannibalise the replicated probes and the mining machines when the Janise had developed their own interstellar ships and had arrived at the prepared world. The Harvester had exploded their sun before they had any chance of doing this. Toarvaks had slipped through the life barren systems it dominated and out of sight using wormholes. They were seen and recorded with the information sent back. The central intelligence had no knowledge of wormhole technology as it relied on psychic power to open one. So it patiently waited and built a flytrap.