Biography & Autobiography - General

For 150 years Northgate, the main road into the town of Darlington, in the north east of England, has been dominated by a large Victorian church with its 120 foot steeple & large, solid, blue entrance doors. This book opens those large blue doors...

My lifetime and times from childhood to retirement, with all the ups and downs and achievements.Author: Brian EdwardsISBN-10: 0244510016ISBN-13: 9780244510015Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2019Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.09d

The author Daphne and her husband Charles were prisoners of war in Java from 1942-45 and suffered great hardship at the hands of the invading Japanese, poignantly described in Daphne's first book, 'Java Nightmare'. Being senior manager of the vast Anglo-Dutch plantations seemed to...

This is a memoir about a lady who reached 109. She experienced 2 world wars in her home village: Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. She and her two sisters reached a combined age of 316!Author: Taylor McGovernISBN-10: 0244488819ISBN-13: 9780244488819Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2019Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x...

What does it take to be a Rockstar's wife? Or to be factual ...Second Wife? Meet Kitten whose Rockstar husband is certainly not going to age gracefully......Hang out with Kitten as she tries to tame her bad boy husband with yoga and veganism whilst...

An amusing and sometimes moving account of the author's boyhood during the war, his subsequent schooling and adventures in cricket, aviation and poetry. From the author of the poetry collection Out of Sight Out of Mind.Author: J. Alan BrownISBN-10: 0244420793ISBN-13: 9780244420796Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2019Pages:...

Charles King is a dedicated and caring teacher who falls in love with a former student and sends her a message expressing his feelings. This leads Charles to face up to a previous tragedy and sets him on a path of self discovery and...

The following is a collection of articles which I wrote for the village monthly newspaper The Medstead Times over a twenty year period. 'Redcote' is the name of our house and 'up' is what goes on there. A series similar to this article is...

Lindsay Fairgrieve gave up a lucrative career in London at the age of forty-five to follow her lifelong ambition of obtaining a university degree - at whatever cost. This is not a book about academia - instead, it is a fascinating account of Lindsay's...

A story of a lass who grew up and never had a social life. She did not date in her younger years. Or even had the joy of the world, instead dedicating her life to serve GodAuthor: Ana ZaffinoISBN-10: 0244373884ISBN-13: 9780244373887Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2018Pages:...

This is a memoir of involvement with an English-speaking educational network in Latin America. The network, Latin American Heads Conference (known by its initials LAHC) was established with the aim of holding an annual educational conference for the membership and to provide Heads of...

This second memoir by E.D. Clapham begins where the first one, Life Happens, ended: after her marriage to Peter, her 'Mr Very Right', and covers the period between 1949 and 1985. Peter's work takes them to Australia, New Zealand, and America, before finally returning...

The author joined the Fleet Air Arm in December 1950. During his 13+ years of service, he worked on many interesting Naval aircraft. A few years later, the 'jet' propelled aircraft would make their appearance, and to make room for those, his beloved piston-engine...

The author, Philip Hall, takes a trip through his working life after being employed by just one company, that had changes of ownership twice during that time. He held various positions within those companies, office worker, mechanic on the workshop floor, running the workshop...

A journey through a young English boy's childhood memories from 1933 to 1945. Following many house removals and changes of schools, the author and his family enter the tumultuous threshold of World War 2 and all this means for yet more upheavals in his...

This book has been published in order to provide some information about Thomas and Ann Stone and their family as we celebrate in October 2019 the two hundredth anniversary of their arrival in Hobart Town. From the time of the birth of their first...

This is a true account of incredible highs and inconceivable lows, heart-warming discoveries and heart breaking tragedies. Starting in 1963, it was a journey that lasted for over forty years and quite literally meant travelling to the other side of the world. It was...

This is the story of three men who lost their lives in the First World War, as told by two of their sisters. It provides letters sent by the boys from the front, and also comments from their officers after their deaths. And it...

The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin finds temporary sanctuary in the imagination of obscure British writer Antony J Stowers.Author: Antony J. StowersISBN-10: 0244169888ISBN-13: 9780244169886Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2019Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.52d

During the mid Twentieth Century, teenagers living in a small town near Pittsburgh had to invent their own lives, there was so little else to do. Caught between the innocence of youth and the desire to be grown up they live life founded on...

Otis Ray Redding Jr., born September 9th, 1941, Dawson, Georgia, U.S., was a singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He's regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and...

A Family history of the Carter and Hensler families of Smithfield and East London from c. 1650 _1930.with a particular biography of Stanley who was eventually committed to an institution for life because of his mental health issues.Author: Graham ClaydonISBN-10: 0244147205ISBN-13: 9780244147204Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

A collection of stories and insights of travels and a ilfe of faith and experiences.Author: Christopher BrownISBN-10: 0244143633ISBN-13: 9780244143633Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2018Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d

"A literary classic", "One of the most authoritative tomes on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", "A Pulitzer Prize winner in the making"... are some of the comments not being made about this book... However, I am hoping for a "Fucking Hilarious" from someone, somewhere......

This book combines elements of parody, social critique, autobiography, general philosophy, literary criticism and religious speculation, a complex into which chickens, and characters of the most various kinds intrude.Author: Julian ScuttsISBN-10: 0244128405ISBN-13: 9780244128401Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2020Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.29d

Tom retired at 67, looking forward to years of travel and fun with his wife Margaret. Then came Alzheimer's. It could happen to any of us. Tom is just one of the global millions of home carers looking after loved ones stricken, in later...

I was born in 1938 and grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire. I was an only child and during the war years I was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and Diphtheria, and was in hospital so much of my early years I had to learn to write...

The life of Inti Peredo, guerrilla fighter, Bolivian Communist revolutionary, and comrade of Che Guevara in the ill-fated Bolivian campaign of 1967.Author: Jesus LaraISBN-10: 0244106215ISBN-13: 9780244106218Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2018Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.53d

This is a personal memoir written for her family that includes her childhood and family background, as well as the life she has lived.Author: Jenny OpieISBN-10: 0244098093ISBN-13: 9780244098094Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2018Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

'Redcote' is the name of our house and 'up' is what goes on there. A series similar to this article is running in one of the national weekly newspapers, I believe - but there the similarity ends.Author: Jane M. E. FomesISBN-10: 024409232XISBN-13: 9780244092320Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage:...

Most of us enjoy a countryside walk or watching nature programmes, but what if you could capture a small part for yourself? Twenty-five years ago I felt the need to buy a small copse to manage and later replant the adjacent pasture. Every season...

The chance discovery of a long deserted cottage in North Wales brings two very different families together. A memoir of 1960s Wolverhampton and Snowdonia from the perspective of a small girl navigating her way through the confusing world of adults in a rapidly changing...

This delightful collection of poems was written by a man who lived in Gomersal, West Yorkshire between 1907 and 1988. He was a coal merchant and ice cream seller turn by turn about, according to the season. As such he was always out in...

Learning through teaching in China, Hungary, Vietnam, Palestine and France. Pat Stapleton describes her experiences travelling to teach English. It wasn't planned that way, but it turned out to be a series of fascinating encounters with people in countries at times of transition and...

When Louise's breast cancer returned, six years after her first diagnosis as stage IV incurable cancer, she soon realised that rather than being a death sentence, it was the final opportunity to put her life in order. That meant learning to take care of...

After much pushing and encouraging, I managed to get my father to write what he knows about our family heritage. Initially, I was more interested in hearing about my grandfather, Reginald Kilbey, who was a famous musician and had an amazing career in the...

Ted Cogdell from Griffithstown, south Wales was conscripted into the first (and only) peacetime militia in July 1939. What was supposed to be six months training turned into seven years of war. His adventures during WWII are truly remarkable. He was awarded the Burma...

This book follows on from her 2 prevous books. It outlines her first year on a Cancer Drug Trial. It shows that you must not sit back and accept defeat. It gives hope to all those who have this diagnosis of mesothelioma.Author: Raymond NyeISBN-10:...

School can be crap for anyone. Whether you have a disability or not school can suck. But going through school not knowing about having a disability was a real struggle! Have you ever felt like there was something wrong with you? Ever wondered why...

Being Kipling exposes Rudyard Kipling s identity as he himself perceived it through the lens of a collection of works composed over a period of years and brought together in the volume Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. Dillingham uses this extraordinary...

At 6:03 p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th of August 1970, Alexander Marcel Andre Sebastian Barker Bailiff was born to protect the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Governor General of Australia, President of International Commission of Jurists, and three hundred and seventy...

Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, a historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what his Christian vision has brought forth in the lives of the contributors. Youwill meet poets, historians, bishops,...

Union with Christ is the first extensive work on the Christology of Swiss theologian Adolf Schlatter (1852-1938). It offers fresh insights not only to readers interested in Adolf Schlatter's theology in particular, but also to students and professionals from the historical and dogmatic disciplines...

Raised in the wilds of Far North Queensland, Papua New Guinea and outback Australia, as a child Matt Wright would catch deadly snakes for fun or lizards and turtles for show and tell at school. Now the star of National Geographic's worldwide smash TV...

Patrick O'Neill grew up in Alaska in the 1920s and 1930s. He lied about his age to get his first job in mining and later became president of International Mining Corporation. He served in the Army Air Corps in World War II and operated...

Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists contains 36 interviews with well-known physicists, including 20 Nobel laureates, Templeton Prize winners, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. Physics has been one of the determining fields of science in the past 100 years, playing a conspicuous...

The perfect approach for the modern parent-to-be: shows how making the right kinds of lifestyoe and diet decisions can help optimize your chances of conceiving and having ahealth pregnancy.Author: Anne Charlish,Kim DaviesISBN-10: 1844761088ISBN-13: 9781844761081Publisher: Southwater PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2005Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 11.66h x 9.04w...

What happens when the life you worked for doesn't deliver the meaning you expected?Walking with the Preacher is a thoughtful and honest journey through the book of Ecclesiastes for anyone who has wrestled with disappointment, exhaustion, or the quiet realization that success alone does...

Porch Stories is a collection of vignettes drawn from eight years spent living and working on Mackinac Island, most of them answered from the front porch of The Inn at Stonecliffe.As general manager of the historic mansion hotel, Stefanie Congdon heard the same questions...

What if the most powerful leadership lessons came from a dog?In Biscuit the Dog, Tom Sorel shares a heartfelt journey of servant leadership through the quiet wisdom of Biscuit, a gentle rescue dog who led with kindness, presence, and unwavering loyalty.Through inspiring stories and...