Memoirs Publishing: 234 books
Queen Margaret Tudor
The Story of a Courageous but Forgotten Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Queen Margaret II of Scotland (1489-1541) has been all but forgotten in the story of the Tudor dynasty established by her father, Henry VII. Misunderstood and underestimated by many historians, she has been seen as a spectator to history, her motivations described as foolish, self-seeking, corrupt or...
by Richard M Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
On 26th July 1986 a train derailed after striking a van at an open level crossing in a remote East Yorkshire village. The resulting carnage killed nine people, injured 42 and left dozens of survivors and families reeling from the shock for the rest of their lives. Now for the first time the full story...
That Monstrous Regiment
The birth of women’s political emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man’s world, they proved highly adept at using women’s...
Through the Dragon's Gate
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Jean O'Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo- Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. Her childhood was a simple one, sleeping on a straw mat in a tiny bedroom which...
Twisted Turban
A thought-provoking journey along cultural borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The true-story of life and love in an unfamiliar world. When Naginder Sehmi was born in Kenya nobody could have predicted the amazing life he was to live. From the scorched plains of Africa to the lofty mountains of Switzerland, Narender’s lifelong journey has been filled with unbelievable moments....
My Life in Pieces, Poems and Paragraphs
Verses, musings and original observations on a complex, wonderful world
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
A MENSA member who is on a constant quest for new understanding of everything about him, Jim Emerton, who describes himself as a writer, poet and philosopher, has travelled much of the world, from Nepal to Turkey and from Russia to the USA. In the world of international long-distance pigeon racing, he...
Burdened but Unruffled
The Story of a World War II Submarine and its Crew
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Launched in 1942 as World War II was raging, HMS Unruffled patrolled the oceans for the remainder of the hostilities, destroying nearly 40,000 tons of enemy shipping - and one train - before retiring, battered and bruised but glorious, and without losing a man. James Gregan's home town of Colchester...
Let the Wolves Devour
War, religion and espionage during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1560
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This meticulously-researched book sets out in vivid detail the story of the conflict between Scotland and England in 1542-1560, one of the most violent and colourful episodes in British history. After the death in 1542 of King James V of Scotland, his wife Mary of Guise, mother of the future Mary Queen...
Microbes, Music and Me
A Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
John Postgate describes this autobiography as essentially ‘a book about doing science’, and while it is an entertaining account of his life in the UK and abroad as he rose to international prominence in microbiology, it is also a book about playing and listening to his beloved jazz. Away from lab...
The Unthronged Oracle
A Study of the Poetry of Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Laura Riding was a major poet whose poems, though widely admired and influential, have been little understood. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s she was 'a devout advocate of poetry' believing that 'to go to poetry is the most ambitious act of the mind'. Her subsequent renunciation of poetry in the 1940s...
More Pieces of Jim Emerton
Further musings and original observations on Nature, Man and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Jim Emerton is a philosopher and a poet as well as an internationally known pigeon racing expert. His travels around the world and his explorations of the natural world near his home have given him endless material as he muses about the wonders and foibles of nature and the folly of man. His verses...
Dunster - A Castle at War
A journey through 900 years of savage and colourful history
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle on the Somerset coast is one of Britain’s oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of siege warfare, dark deeds, bloodshed and treachery. Dunster’s rich and colourful story covers more than...
Flight of the Long Boats
An adventure story about a boy and his dog, Tutu, who, a thousand years ago, landed by mistake at the bottom of the world.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
An adventure story about a boy and his dog, Tutu, who, a thousand years ago, landed by mistake at the bottom of the world. Kahu is the son of the Chief of a peaceful tribe living on a small tropical island in the middle of the world. Their safety has been threatened by distant, marauding savages. Navigating...
Up the Creek Without a Tadpole
Dementia shatters and rebuilds the bond between a mother and a daughter
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
The letters Gillian Griffith wrote to her elderly, demented mother were never intended to be read - they were simply Gillian’s way of dealing with her own anger and guilt towards her high-handed, infuriating and impossibly challenging mother. To Gillian’s own surprise, “as the words bounced back...