A round-up of book signings, author interviews, news and events.
Brian Eldridge died in 2020, soon after completing this memoir of his early years. Collated and edited by his widow Joy, it vividly describes his childhood in the back streets of pre-war East End London, his apprenticeship in a dirty, disorganised and very Dickensian ship repair dockyard where health and safety was an unknown concept, and his rewarding National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Raven Ruthe has spent more than two decades helping her daughter to battle a severe drug addiction which made life for both of them a living hell. Only as she approached her forties, with the help of her mother’s unceasing love, courage and faith in God, was her daughter finally able to settle into recovery, but the experience has left scars on the whole family. Raven has written this book to paint a vivid picture of the horrors of addiction and to help fellow suffering families to find the light at the end of a very long tunnel.
Newly updated for 2020. This revised and updated book documents Adele’s experiences with her daughter, since the book was published originally in 2013 and her ongoing involvement in highlighting the plight of orphans in Romania.
In 1991, Adele Rickerby unable to have a second child because of a medical problem and struggling to cope in a failing marriage, decided to take her future in her hands by adopting a child from Romania.
The misguided policies of the recently-deposed Ceasescu government on family planning had led to the birth of an estimated 100,000 unwanted babies in that country, most housed in horrific circumstances and with the absolute minimum care possible.
The Promise I Kept is Adele’s story of her nightmare journey halfway round the world to find and adopt a baby, to negotiate her way through the barriers created by red tape and corrupt officialdom and finally to carry her tiny new daughter safely home to a life where she could be properly loved and cared for.
Fergus and Lavinia Moreton have been married for more than 30 years and ‘comfortably wrapped up’ in each other for nearly 50. Though they enjoy a life of semi-rural comfort in civilised Middle England, nothing is ever quite right for Fergus, including any foodstuff invented after the 1960s. The matters they disagree about range from the use of animals to keep the lawn down to Fergus’ supposed talent as a player of the bodhran – or any other musical instrument. Neither could imagine life without the other, although Lavinia sometimes tries…
A sympathetic, perceptive portrait of a couple who are not old yet – just in very late middle age.
グロスターシャーの見事なバイブリーの村は、常にコッツウォルズの王冠の真の宝石であり、4シーズンすべてにわたる88ページの美しい画像を備えた「バイブリーシーズン」では、その理由を示すために1年を通して写真の旅に出ます。英語と日本語で制作されており、過去の訪問の思い出を追体験したい、または将来の訪問を楽しみにしたい人への理想的な贈り物になります。 1965年にバイブリーで生まれ、3人兄弟の末っ子であるレイは、幼少期の最初の7年間を村で過ごしました。村では、家がトウモロコシ畑を見下ろしていました。無精ひげ爆弾、わら俵の家、プラムホイールのゴーカートの記憶は今では遠くにありますが、彼は今でも頻繁に村を訪れ、カメラを通してそれを捉えています。村に関する彼の地元の知識と風景写真に対する専門家の目は、Bibury Seasonsのページ全体で明らかです。
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Every artist was first an amateur.”
Colour Me Well introduces the Indian art form known as Madhubani, which combines a stylised depiction of subjects from the natural world with borders and patterns. In this wonderfully inspiring colouring book, stained-glass artist Sue Grundy offers you the opportunity to try your hand at this art?
Wellbeing and happiness improve when we participate in creative activities: it’s all about having fun and being in the moment, so that any stress simply melts away.
Taking her cue from the animals and plants that surround us in our daily life, Sue’s designs highlight their structure and composition. Just add colour to complete each design, then try out your own patterns in the blank pages. Each page features an ‘Artist’s Tip’ to successfully complete the design, and an inspiring quote from a
celebrated artist.
This is the story of a young Libyan woman (Sara Leptis is not her real name) who graduated in England full of dreams and ambitions but returned to her home city of Tripoli to face only tragedy, disaster and deprivation when civil war broke out there in 2011. The author tells how she fell in love with a man she met on the streets of her city before their world began to implode in the
aftermath of the Arab Spring. It is a story of a country in crisis, and how a terrible civil war changed the fate of two lovers. It is also an eyewitness account of the
way a land which had been a peaceful, productive north African paradise became the impoverished, unstable war zone it remains today.
This is the true story of a professor Hippolite Amadi who, in the face of appalling adversity, saved over one million new-born babies dying unnecessarily in underequipped hospitals by developing low-cost intervention techniques for newborn care. He spent over 20 years travelling through war zones and areas of conflict to save countless tiny lives, fighting a continuous war with corrupt hospital managers and their office staff who had been mismanaging funds to line their own pockets – and now did everything they could to obstruct his mission, because he would not let them have their way.
In September 1969, Amelia Hardy arrives at the leafy campus of a Yorkshire teacher training college to fulfil her teaching ambitions. In this new world away from home, friendships destined to last a lifetime will be found. There are challenges to face and fun to be had before the girl from Durham can stand at last in front of her own class and hear the refrain: ‘Yes, Miss Hardy’.
An entertaining and heart-warming memoir of becoming a primary school teacher.
A journey through abuse
As a young woman, Pauline Zimmerman embarked on a journey to make sense of a childhood dominated by a cruel, controlling father, clouded by parental conflict and haunted, for her and her four siblings, by physical, mental, sexual and emotional abuse which went unacknowledged and unchallenged for years. Understanding how abuse within the family happens and why, and how to help sufferers deal with it, has been her life’s work; she became a respected specialist in adult psychiatric and mental health nursing.
If you want to understand domestic abuse, this book is for you.