Memoirs Publishing imprint: 93 books
Coming in to Land
The Memoirs of Wing Commander Bill Malins DFC
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Bill Malins lifelong devotion to the family farm was matched only by his desire to serve his king and country as a reconnaissance pilot during the Second World War, when he earned a DFC for bravery in action whilst flying behind enemy lines following a daring reconnaissance mission over Belgium.
Aviation at the Edge
42 Years of Comradeship, Tragedy and Adrenaline Fuelled Life in the Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Three thousand feet above the Zambian bush, the DHC2 Beaver had only ten minutes' fuel remaining. Night was drawing in; ground features were indiscernible. I could not raise anyone on the radio. Would this be the end? John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy...
by Dawn Maree Ketteringham, Richard Ketteringham
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"REVOLVING DOORS" is an adult, autobiographical novel in which 'Richard', now in his sixties, recalls incidents of his nightmarish first five years of childhood, while fostered through seventeen residences as a ward of Toronto's "S.W.York Co. Children's Aid Society". From his perspective...
Tallulah Tumour - Friend or Foe?
A Personal Insight into a Battle with a Brain Tumour
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Fiona Goldsby has emerged triumphant from the terrifying experience of suffering a serious brain tumour. She found very little written material was available to help her in her battle, so she has written Tallulah Tumour, Friend or Foe? to help others dealing with a similar diagnosis. It is intended to...
A Changing World
Home, Family and Working Life in the Mid 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is the story of life in an English town and an English community as seen through the eyes of an ordinary English family - the author's own. It focuses on the years from the 1930s through to the 1960s and covers a period when the country was changing perhaps faster that it ever has before or since....
A Dockyard Apprentice's story
Hard Graft, Scrapes and Japes on the Long Road to Becoming a Trained Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The apprenticeship at Chatham Dockyard is the finest in the world - if you stick to it, the world's your oyster' Robert Smith's dad told his teenage son. When young Robert started there in 1958, the docks employed 6000 people on a two-mile long site encompassing hundreds of workshops, offices and storehouses...
Diary of a Decorator
The Story of FWA
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The Story of FWA. Builders and decorators to the royal household, and probably the worlds most successful painting contractors. In the years after the Second World War Colin Douglas-Fairhurst turned the modest decorating business founded by his father into a national leader in the field. FWA, as it became...
Carry On Ambulance
A Cartooned Satirical Look at the Ambulance Service from the 1960s to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
A book of over 100 cartoons and stories recording some extraordinary, bizarre and comical moments of forty-odd years in the ambulance service. Many of these events happened before political correctness had been invented. In the interests of all concerned, the names and locations have been altered to protect the guilty but all the stories are true.
by Sam Thaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The evil thugs of Idi Amin's Uganda and the fanatical bombers and machine-gun-toting terrorists of Mumbai make The Crocodiles Teeth a gripping tale of one man's survival and resourcefulness set against a background of tyranny, terror and hardship on two continents.
The Boy Who Learned To Read
The story of a boy who broke free of the poverty of the Somalian nomad life to become a doctor in the west
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Mohamud Ege grew up in the heat and dust of northern Somalia, the son of a family of nomads who were kept constantly on the move by the need to find water and grazing for the camels and sheep which were their only possessions. When Mohamud was five, his father was killed by a snake. A wise uncle then...
Trouble with Sex
The Story of a Tailor's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Sentenced to jail for running a string of brothels alleged to be worth £1million, Adele Lubin now tells her story in Trouble with Sex. How she grew up in London's East End the daughter of a Jewish tailor and how she eventually ended up in prison.
The Butterflys Cage
One Woman's Fight Against Family Tyranny and Marital Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
'The Butterflys Cage', is the heart wrenching, inspiring true story of a young Pakistani womans flight to freedom. Suffering abuse, tyranny and disownment as a result of refusing to submit to the abuse received by not one but two violent husbands, Shahnaz opens the doors to a hidden world, illustrating how cultural values can allow human rights violations to prosper.
From the Diplomatic Bag
An autobiography by William McDowell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
From surviving a plane crash, a kidnapping and an encounter with a murderous mob of fanatics to killing and eating a bear he found sharing his cave, William McDowells true-life story of India makes a colourful and extraordinary tale. He was also offered the freedom of the harem by his friend the Maharaja...
Unshed Tears
A novel…but not a fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This true-life novel was written in the aftermath of the Second World War and the authors terrible experiences in a Nazi death camp. Judith, born in Prague was deported with her Jewish parents to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland when she was only 13. Within a year both her parents die and she is left alone...