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Book List: Biography
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A Family Business
Guernsey – rich milk, greenhouses, horticulture, tourists –
an idyllic island with a small community and a long history of varied
industries. For over 200 years the home of a flourishing brickmaking business.
In a celebration of the history of St Andrew’s Brickfields, the author
brings together all the aspects of his family-run industry – from
quarrying and processing stone to agriculture, complete with memories
of the ‘bygone days’.
Carefully researched, capturing the spirit of changing times,
A Family Business is more than facts and recollections, it is a significant
legacy for future generations – a fascinating treasure.
A Family Business
Michael Best
ISBN 1-905621-15-9 U.K. £7.99
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Tangles
This title is set in Eastern Europe in the 1940s. A determined young Jewish
girl lives with the desperate, but futile hope of her father returning
from the war. This is Jeannette's story - of her childhood days, of growing
up during the Second World War in Romania. With a busy and ever-absent
working mother, Jeannette's formative years were almost nomadic - living
like a yo-yo between boarding schools, other family members and other
families.
'I was an expert at new beginnings, new schools.' Despite painful events,
frustrations and disillusions, Jeannette recollects many happy times in
her 'tangled' young life. Her eventual emigration to Israel with her mother
marked the end of her childhood in Romania.
Tangles
Jeanette Solomon
ISBN 1905203 23 3 U.K. £5.99
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The Primary Object
The Primary Object is a fascinating autobiography that delves into the
author's family background, to reveal his roots and shoots in law enforcement.
Four generation of Swains have enjoyed flourishing careers in the Police
Force, and here John Swain Junior documents their collective achievements
in a highly pressurised profession.
But this is more than a book about successful working lives: it is also
a proud and affectionate personal recollection of the people who shaped
him, and those who followed in his footsteps.
The Primary Object
John Swain
Paperback (2005)
ISBN 1904754-81-3 U.K. £5.99
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A Journey through two
Worlds 
"No wonder you have problems - you are far more a girl than boy."
I left his surgery feeling very perplexed, devastated, and completely
lost. The doctor advised forgetting the past because it just shouldn't
have happened…
In 1935 Reverend Adams was expecting to have a male grandchild to carry on the family tradition, so he refused to acknowledge any doubt as to the sex of the child and personally registered Christopher as a boy. Being put in a children's home at the tender age of five, ignored by his parents, and abused as a teenager was a cocktail for emotional damage. Coping with confused feelings added to an unbearable dilemma. Surgery would not be an option until later years - the path to claiming back a life would be a challenge, traumatic and lonely.
A Journey Through Two Worlds is an intensely personal story of someone
struggling with female emotions in an ostensibly male body. A moving and,
quite frankly, courageous tale.
A Journey through two
Worlds
Chrystal O'Brien
Paperback (2004)
ISBN 1904754-61-9 U.K. £5.99
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Every one of us sometimes encounters rare, emotion-revealing manifestations of fellow human-beings. I like to call these "Moments of Truth".
'Within these pages, Wolfgang Braun reveals a few of the more touching 'moments' that life has shown him, from the German chambermaid who stretched out a hand of kindness across the gulf of prejudice, to the astonishing reawakening of a serene old lady in the grip of senility.
Written in beautifully simple prose, Moments of Truth is an affecting, often humorous glimpse of the grand scale of humanity, and its capacity to love and forgive.
Moments of Truth
Wolfgang Braun
Paperback - (2004)
ISBN 1904754-73-2 U.K. £5.99
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St Luke's Old Boys and St Luke's Old Girls
What better way to relive some of the historic moments in time than by sharing and comparing thoughts at a reunion with old school friends? St Luke's Old Boys and St Luke's Old Girls annual 'get togethers' go from strength to strength, and long may they continue.
"I remember the first 'real' air attack and the rush of adrenalin as we realised this was 'it'…"
Childhood, schooldays, wartime memories - however pleasant or painful the events, they nevertheless often instil a sense of strength and inspiration. SLOBS and SLOGS is full of nostalgia, taking a peek at a child's eye view of the war years together with snippets of recollections from 'Old Boys and Old Girls'.
Here's to the Clan of '39!
SLOBS and SLOGS
Doreen Waite
Paperback - 83 pages (2004)
ISBN 1904754-44-9 U.K. £5.99
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Germany, April 1943 - the harsh realities of war forces an innocent 10 year old girl to join the mandatory 'Hitler Youth' movement. Yet her evacuation to Austria in the war years was a sweet life compared to the oppression to come with the Russians marching in and working as a farm labourer aged 14.
Rejected by her mother all her life because she looked so much like her father, Gisela Hildegard Angove recalls a life of hardship and heartache in extraordinarily accurate and vivid detail. After years of astonishing loyalty in difficult circumstances, having traveled to England where she married unwisely but made her home, the author eventually finds solace in the spirit world where "we are all equal in God's eyes;" marked by wonderful psychic experiences after joining a spiritualist church.
This is an inspirational and poignant tale that needed to be told, which also does a fine job of recalling some significant moments of history. No one could fail to be moved by this fascinating and compelling story.
The Soul is Everything
Gisela Angove
Paperback -388 (2004)
ISBN 1904754-51-1 U.K. £8.99
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