Aupaluktuk - The Red One

To escape his narrow home environment and loving but suffocating family, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Lunan became a fur trader in the inter-war years, living and working in the barren Arctic lands of Canada, where each day was a gruelling battle with the elements. It was the start of a love affair with a country and its indigenous people that lasted for over thirty years.
Persuaded into a loveless marriage, Sandy lived apart from the wife who would not share his austere lifestyle, eventually finding a soulmate in Akumalik, an exceptional Inuik woman who brought him happiness but ultimately could not keep him.
This story is based on Lunan’s life, a man whose commitment to the Inuit and to his company persuaded the Canadian Government to honour him by naming a lake after him. Where possible, it is authenticated by documents from the archives of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Winnipeg.

Aupaluktuk - The Red One
Brenda Oglivie
Paperback - 170 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-37-6 U.K. £7.99
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Living in God's Waiting Room

The Ultimate in Retirement Living Without Worries
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Ken Chapman and his wife, Barbara, moved into one of those nice retirement homes to relax and spend their last years happily being looked after by kind helpful staff and securely protected from danger while they enjoyed the peace and tranquillity of their new 'home from home'.
What Ken and his wife actually found was disorganisation, carelessness, lack of concern, 'fiddles' and 'scams', and they were paying for the privilege of the experience!
In sheltered housing you look forward to being free from many of the day-to-day worries – let someone else do the worrying. But going into retirement property and living under different conditions is a big step to take, as Ken and Barbara found out.
A delightfully witty and enjoyable read, but at the same time offering sound advice, Living in God’s Waiting Room is a valuable insight for anyone considering purchasing retirement property.

"I endorse Living in God's Waiting Room. This is a moving and thoroughly justified commentary on the management of sheltered accommodation. This book also proposes a number of well argued changes to the existing law." Michael Fallon MP

Living in God's Waiting Room
Ken Chapman
Paperback - 95 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-05-8 U.K. £5.00
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The Jacques Family Life Story

Seven sons – a French-Canadian fisherman’s legacy after he settles by chance in England in 1906, tragically dying in 1928 never to know the paths his sons would follow in life…
This remarkable tale, spanning over a hundred years, gives a fascinating insight into the life of a hard-working family living through poverty-stricken times. Sent away at only seven years of age to be educated at a Merchant Seaman’s Orphanage, Les Jacques recalls those early years with sensitive clarity – “they taught us to be self reliant, to be clean and have respect for our elders. The discipline was for our own good.”
The author’s tribute to his mother and brothers, vividly recalling his own journey through the war years, life as a merchant seaman travelling to all corners of the world, and his later married life ‘ashore’ is nothing less than inspirational.

The Jacques Family Life Story
Les Jacques
Paperback - 86 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-42-2 U.K. £6.99
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From Paradise to Eden

It is the 1940s, and young Dulcie Matthews is growing up amid the violence and deprivation of the war years. Her home in Paradise is a microcosm of humanity, where all the tragedies, scandals and small excitements of childhood make life in ‘the Street’ as thrilling as in any big city. And at the centre of it all is Dulcie’s family: an aloof mother and quiet, gentle father; her beautiful older sister and vibrant, adored brother.
Told with all the wide-eyed wonder of youth, Paradise to Eden is a mesmerising nostalgia trip that allows a glimpse into a world long gone, but not forgotten.

From Paradise to Eden
Dulcie Matthews
Paperback - 158 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-56-2 U.K. £6.99
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Twisted Threads

Scorned by the Catholic Church, Leila Merriman was labelled ‘bastard’ throughout her schooldays. In 1930’s Ireland a child born out of wedlock brought shame upon the whole family but, having raised seventeen children of their own, Mick and Lizzie lovingly raised and protected their granddaughter, Leila, for the first eight years of her life. Little did they realise that not knowing her true mother’s identity would scar her forever.
The death of her grandmother left Leila alone and vulnerable. Sent to England to live she was distraught, abused and beaten – practically driven mad by the most appalling treatment through much of her life. “They say you have a guardian Angel looking out for you. Mine was having a night off.” Determined to spare her own children from such a fate, Leila’s courage in the most extreme circumstances is nothing less than remarkable.
Twisted Threads is an extraordinary true story of one woman’s quest to find the mother she desperately needed all through her life, but would she ever finally unveil the truth? An intensely frank, moving and sensitively written story, this is an exceptional read – an inspiration to anyone facing adversity.

Twisted Threads
Leila Merriman
Paperback - 232 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-64-3 U.K. £7.99
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