Memoirs Publishing: 234 books
Here's to our Far-flung Empire
An Account of a Colonial Upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Tony Orchard was a product of the British Empire at a time when Great Britain's rule across an empire that stretched from India to Singapore and Jamaica to Borneo was fast fading into history. Heres To Our Far-Flung Empire is a fascinating and entertaining account of 17 years of conflict, comradeship,...
A Glance in the Mirror
The Story of a Boy, Two Families and Two Marriages
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This tale tells the author's story in the context of English history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Born to an ordinary hardworking family which could trace its origins back to 11th century Ireland, Terence Kearey emerged from a wartime Home Counties childhood to enter the world of...
Safeguard Our Flank
The Kensingtons
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
On a summer's day on the Somme in 1916, one brave battalion, The Kensingtons, lost half its men in less than an hour, cut to pieces by enemy artillery. The Kensingtons, guardians of the right flank on the battlefront at Gommecourt, were ordered to march on the enemy without proper preparation in a move later condemned as foolhardy and suicidal.
From Smuggling to Cotton Kings
The Greg Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
From Smuggling to Cotton Kings is the story of the Greg Family, who helped shape the economic fortunes of Britain for more than two centuries. It tells of their rise to power and prominence in the fields of textiles, shipping, banking and marine insurance, their role in the industrial revolution and how their fortunes declined in the 20th century.
A Day In A Life
Is Janet's Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Janet Andrews enjoyed a happy life, as packed with adventure, drama, love and laughter as she could have wished. But it has not been a carefree one. As a young woman she developed an acute form of multiple sclerosis, which has progressed until Janet, now in her sixties, is mostly paralysed with the exception of partial movement in one arm and hand.
A Lot of Loose Ends - A Vet in Africa
The drama, humour and politics of animal care on the Dark Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Roland Minor knew early on that he wanted to become a vet. After graduating from Cambridge University, he left the UK in 1963 for his first post, in Uganda. He has since spent most of his life in Africa, holding senior government posts or practising independently in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Botswana,...
God's Sorely Tested Child
The spiritual life of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff with a translation of Das Geistliche Jahr
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Though the name of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was little known during her lifetime, she is now recognised, more than 160 years after her death, as a significant German poet. Her work is linguistically challenging and her imagery taxing, but a study of it can prove richly rewarding. This book aims to...
Where the Road Leads
One woman's journey through love, loss and family drama in three countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Carol Witherington was born and raised in the sunshine of South Africa in the days before apartheid tensions led to 20 years of terrorist insurgency and guerrilla war fare. When those happy, carefree days ended forever in the 1960s, white families had to protect themselves with guns and barbed wire....
Catacombs of the Damned
Those Who Would Steal Living Bodies in the Quest for Eternal Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
A neglected manor house conceals a shocking secret which dates all the way back to the witch hunts of the 17th century and to those who would steal living bodies in the quest for eternal life. When the new owners and their gypsy allies investigate they find themselves lifting the lid on the terrifying secrets of an underground chamber of horrors.
Chasms of Delight
How Mind-Expanding Drugs Helped to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Chasms of Delight is rooted in chemist John Mann's fascination with psychedelic, narcotic and euphoriant drugs. He sets out a colourful history of their discovery and use, telling the story of mind-altering drugs, their contribution to the work of poets and artists, the iniquities of the drug trade and the popular use of drugs in the 60s and 70s.
Aspects of Marriage
Discover Why Your Marriage Is Failing And How You Can Make It Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
All around the world, marriages are failing in their millions. Yet God can help, if you let him into your life. 'Aspects of Marriage' will help you to understand why your marriage is failing and how, with God's help, you can make it work. It will also help you to know what to do when you are called to...
by Alice Frank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For more than two years, Rose Elders and her daughter Elizabeth were hounded, bullied and intimidated almost to the point of madness, all because certain junior public servants misused their power, while senior ones who could have stopped it failed to use theirs as they should have. It all started when...
Bitter Sweet
Poems of Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Juanita Nena RudonBeekes poems go straight to the heart and are reflections on a wide range of human relationships. She writes with love and sympathy, but never with blinkers on, for she does not conceal the injustices, the cruelties, and the betrayals, so often manifested in the modern world and as...
Twice a Hero
From the Trenches of the Great War to the Ditches of the Irish Midlands 1915-1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The true story of hardship and horror in the blood and mud seen through the eyes of a teenage volunteer and his comrades in the forgotten conflicts of Salonika and Palestine, during the Great War, fighting for the freedom of small nations and in particular, Home Rule for Ireland. Then the Irish War of Independence, which helped establish a nation.