Amolibros: 74 books

War is hard enough when your dad is missing in action, and even harder when you have to leave everything you know and love. Twelve-year-old Harry is one of three thousand people leaving the coast in Devon during the Second World War as US troops move into the area, planning secret D-Day rehearsals...

Luke Conway is a schoolboy who struggles academically, but has a close affinity with nature and the outdoor life. This leads him to trespass on the Cordenwood estate, where Thornton is the feared and respected head gamekeeper. He is also a veteran of the Falklands War, whose psychological scars he...

Gloucestershire is a long County which sprawls across both sides of the River Severn. It vibrates with English history as well as the stories of many remarkable men and women. So many of the small villages, which seem either picturesque or inconsequential, echo valiant or terrible deeds. It is very...

'This book is fascinating on many levels. It is a glimpse, through her own words, into the life of a woman, Gwen, born in the nineteenth century into a life of privilege. Much of her early adult life was lived in expatriate communities in Egypt, Hong Kong and India. It reveals – perhaps inadvertently...

The unique role of the Seamen’s Hospital Society (SHS) in the foundation of the formal discipline of tropical (colonial) medicine at its Albert Dock Hospital (ADH) in 1899 is not widely appreciated. The SHS was founded in 1821 by a group of philanthropists, primarily for the welfare – both...

This very readable and well illustrated book outlines the medical career of a physician who undertook a series of assignments in tropical countries between 1960 and 1990: Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Saudi Arabia and Papua New Guinea. Having thus obtained considerable experience of, and made significant...

Are you familiar with an aching, inner emptiness that is never satisfied; a huge black hole lurking just beneath the surface that in your lowest moments will suck you down into a bottomless pit of despair; a hole that you do your best to fill with food, alcohol, drugs, sex? Do you have a habit of...

For whatever reason, it appears to be that there is a growing awareness and interest among people in the paranormal: the paranormal, perhaps manifesting in life as a Divine Presence, a guiding force, maybe thought of as the ‘unnamed something’, or the Universal Energy; to many, it will be ‘God’....

This exhilarating adventure takes place in two time zones (present-day England and Surrey of the 1790s). Deploying past-life regression, a celebrity American psychiatrist explores his roots in rural Surrey during the heyday of smuggling as well as in the fleshpots of London. Despite all the swashbuckling...

An enchanting peek into the world of the special school; tales that are touching, surprising and amusing. Find out how useful it can be to play at lions, why custard on your lapels is a sign you might get the job and what teachers do with vibrating snakes. These are edited versions of articles...

In the 1960s to 1980s, a heated controversy arose as to how best medical care could be delivered to individuals living in rural ‘third-world’ communities. This became polarised: should the national health budget be directed to primary health care with the exclusion of tertiary care (including...

In the late nineteenth century it became clear to the British government that health hazards facing those serving in warmer climates, particularly West Africa, were unacceptable. This led to the origin of a new clinical specialty – tropical medicine. Until the Great War (1914-18), the discipline...

Between 1946 and 1962, following World War II (1939-45), for the first time in peace-time Britain, conscription was introduced as a partial solution to Churchill’s ‘cold war’ strategy. While the majority of conscripts served their two-years within the UK or Europe, a minority was sent to overseas...

While staying in a Dorset cottage, Hugh Mullion finds a mysterious key down the side of an antique chair. No one can say how long the key has been there or what it opens. Hugh’s search for answers will unlock the secrets of the troubled life of a talented artist, destined to be hailed a neglected...