Biography & Autobiography - General

When Pat Power retired as Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn in 2012, there was an outpouring of tributes to him and to his time as Bishop. A moving selection of these can be found on the archdiocesan website. His Archbishop, Francis Carroll, said...

Helen died at home in December 2011. It seems that her reserves of hope had run dry. I dearly wish that Helen was still with us but know that she has now found some kind of peace. Helen had read and approved the Foreword...

Ray Loyd Tune lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he manages his real estate and other investments. He received his MBA from Texas A&M, Commerce, Texas in 1978 and went on to manage operations for several Fortune 500 companies. He has written several articles for...

Perspectives - A View of My Own, is a first-hand account of the author's experience living with bipolar disorder. Through her mental health challenges she has managed to survive, thrive, and ultimately live. This book is intended to give the reader hope that it...

A Mental Note is a novel based on the life and times of a man who suffers from a mental illness. Will, who has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, tells his story about living with this illness, focusing mainly on specific periods and...

This book takes you into the centre of my childhood and shows you how everything is not always what is seems. To the outside world we were a 'normal' family and that is just how my mother liked it to appear. But behind the...

Description Riding the Edge is about the author's struggles through life in dealing with his bipolar disease coupled with attention deficit disorder. There is humor and sadness to the book but it is a life truly lived on the edge. About the Author Kevin...

Description 'Sins of the fathers' is an autobiographical work compiled from years of notes, poems and collected anecdotes. It is written from the perspective of a middle-aged man who finally feels free write about his life after both his parents have died. It reviews...

Description Somehow Aiden's world doesn't make sense any more. His neighbour keeps playing Duran Duran so he can't think. Fellow students comment on his frenzied dancing style at the Mega disco and he wonders whether all his life he has been too serious. Worst...

I decided to write this book because I could not bear to hear people's comments regarding someone they knew who committed suicide. The sort of comments where; they were selfish or they wanted to get back at someone or as a vendetta. Having suffered...

Description This book includes 14 true stories from people with bipolar disorder or unipolar depression and their great courage and suffering, their struggles and triumphs. Edited or co-written by Katy Sara Culling, the stories are all of high quality and interest. Each story is...

Description This book is the biography of Helen Maczkowiack's son, Stephen, who suffered from schizophrenia and took his own life at just 29. It captures the haunting story of a young man's desperate struggle to find his way in life. It features excerpts from...

A skilled and versatile artist, Siddig el Nigoumi (1931-1996) is best known for his original ceramics that beautifully express Western and African influence. Telling his story for the first time, this sumptuous publication features new photography of his finest work. Siddig el Nigoumi's fascination...

Kate Sanderson was the ADC to the British Resident Commissioner in Penang during the last three and a half years of British Admistration. In this post she met numerous important and significant persons in the United Kingdom and Malayan governments and the Military. Her...

ADHD: four innocent little letters that can spell disaster - or something like it - if, like the author, you have a son with severe Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. For Jacky Fletcher, ADHD meant total disruption, upset siblings, an impeded career and fractured schooling...

Description This is who I thought I would be. I knew I would be able to write a small book after my second breakdown, but I am not very good at wording things, but I have tried my best. These false beliefs went on...

About the Author Andrew was born in 1951 and has always lived in the South-East of England. His ethnicity is White British. Andrew took a degree in Politics at Reading University but failed his finals in 1974. In 1985 he was awarded a pass...

Description An open, honest, and revealing account of one man's personal battle to de- stigmatize mental illness. Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always painfully honest, it is a journey covering nearly 30 years of working within the mental health care system. With frankness Lol...

Book Description & About the Author Trudy Marwick was born in South East London in 1965. She has spent most of her life living around London. Now living in Orkney and married to Malcolm and bringing up their children. Her childhood spent trying to...

Description This story is about Aaron's adventures as a cannabis dealer as a young man and the progression through his life after realising the errors of his ways. Aaron spends years travelling the world, and finally ends up in a psychiatric ward diagnosed with...

Description Reflections on Life is a collection of poems which describes the life experiences of the author who has lived with the personal legacy of child abuse, followed by the descent into mental illness (schizophrenia and OCD) and alcoholism. The poems carry a message...

Description Overcoming the label of learning disability may be an achievement but also triumphing over the obstacles caused by prejudice at being labeled with schizophrenia is highly unusual. Philip Hill uses his auto-biographical account to describe the ways in which he overcame the rejection...

Description Putting thoughts together leads you on a trail of musing on past life, of finding that the present lifestyle was very much in evidence in ones upbringing. How My childhood seemed to make Me into the person I am today, and a description...

Description "Poles Apart" tells the story of how suffering from severe mental health problems since the age of 17 nearly destroyed Michelle. But now, strangely, when she looks back at her life she feels it has made her stronger. It took ten years before...

Description Leigh Earle once told me that I should write a book, a comment on my lengthy letters. Yes, yes well someone must suffer. How well would everyone like to read ''Letters To Leigh'' which may soothe in a world that is tearing you...

About the Author Moeze Lalji was born in Uganda in 1958 and came to England as a refugee in 1972. He was a paperboy in my school days, then he went to Leeds Polytechnic, then he worked for a small firm of chartered accountants,...

Description He was born with a hole in his soul. A hole that rendered him vulnerable and weak. A hole that made him constantly search for the unattainable. A search that would prove deadly and leave him, early in his life, emotionally, financially and...

About the Author Mickie R. Singer is a writer, teacher, artist, storyteller and poet, depending on her mood or the angle of the sun. Haunted by a lifetime awareness that there was "something wrong," she was over forty before her multiple mental illnesses were...

Description Prolific artist and author Maureen Oliver brings us her autobiography. This is the story of Maureen's activism, her fight against mental illness, the travels, the traumas and the ups and downs of this extraordinary life. Maureen writes with honesty and imagination and in...

The Root Cause of Mental Illness as Discovered by a Patient by Alessandro Prian ISBN 13: 978 1 84747 003 4 Published: 2006br> Pages: 72 DescriptionThis is the author's interpretation about how life is a mixture of experiences which he refers to as a...

By Pat Robinson ISBN: 978 1846930485 Published: 2007 Pages: 72 Key Themes: self estime Description Depression is one of the most common health problems of modern times. At least one in six of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives....

A 1988 VW transporter played a great part in my recovery, about the same time I discovered my camper I started to ride my motorbike once again. Determination, change, you think how can I improve that? What can I do to make things work...

"To this day I am unable to understand how I managed to survive against all odds." So relates the memoir of a young woman, Eva Szek (later Eisenkeit), who survived the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an...

As an Asperger Syndrome "sufferer", life for Guy Blythman has not been easy, if anything because his condition leaves his rational faculties, and his ability to empathise, intact; but it has certainly been interesting. Here he tells his story, the funny moments as well...

This was it, finally that moment of excitement. I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at the age of twenty-two, I reached the top - a memorable journey of my life that I will never forget.Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent and the...

If you find true stories of mischief intriguing, this book is a 'must read'. The author has ostensibly written an account of his life's experiences from infancy through to so-called retirement. He describes how, being disadvantaged from birth, he had to battle through hardship,...

In 1801, two brothers on an upstate New York farm promised each other to make "a total change of purpose and of life, from the track of the plow to the path of literature ad of reputation."Thomas and Henry Warner kept that promise. Both...

WINNING AWAY is a True Story. This Memoir is about her life after she had come to live in the USA, from 2009 till 2019. It is about 10 years of struggling, suffering, dealing with all kinds of people, and eventually finds love and...

Adventures in 86 countries. Intelligence Officer in Germany during the Cold War. Vietnam-era U.S. Army veteran. Diplomat. Corporate President at age 40. Fatherhood. Grief after the death of his wife of 40 years and the death of his son at age 48 when he...

This book is set to inspire people who have challenges. To help them persevere and overcome their challenges and to give them a better quality of life.Author: Donald FryarISBN-10: 1796096970ISBN-13: 9781796096972Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2020Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Freedom is a story of a lady who wants to live normally. She is forced to become someone special because she has been born in a developing country and must live in harsh conditions. Also, the superstitious beliefs and native mentality in third world...

These essays are true narratives about the author's life with her Philippine family of origin. It covers her childhood and early adult years in the Philippines between the 1950s and 1970s and her more than three decades of working as a permanent resident in...

These essays are true narratives about the author's life with her Philippine family of origin. It covers her childhood and early adult years in the Philippines between the 1950s and 1970s and her more than three decades of working as a permanent resident in...

Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information. Think and ponder on the definition for a moment. The lack of knowledge puts you at a disadvantage, the lack of information false information or relying on others to give you the proper information or some...

I was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in December 2017. I published Waiting For When I forget I have Alzheimer's YEAR ONE in February 2019. This new book: Traveling With Alzheimer's YEAR TW0 was finished in December 2019. I am presently working on the YEAR...

My book is an autobiography, which describes my recollection of events and experiences I have encountered throughout my life, from the time I could recall them as a child up to the present time. Some experiences were good, and unfortunately some were bad. It...

This is a true story of this man. It is full of adventures and unusual encounters that are highly interesting to read.Author: Richard T. ChengISBN-10: 1796084794ISBN-13: 9781796084795Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2020Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

This is a true story of this man. It is full of adventures and unusual encounters that are highly interesting to read.Author: Richard T. ChengISBN-10: 179608476XISBN-13: 9781796084764Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2020Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

You're Built to Win - Embrace Your Truth! If you don't know what you bring to the table, then you are certainly the chair. Our existence is not designed for us to be "sat on". Dr. Charles Lee chronicles his life in such a...

The worst of times can sometimes be the catalyst to the best of times. At the age of forty-seven the author's worst time dragged her into a whirlpool of self-pity. While suicide was knocking on her door, God sent an angel to save her...