J. R. Ackerley 
My Father and Myself [EPUB ebook] 

Can you imagine waking up one day while you“re still in high school and realize that you can“t walk? That“s what happened to me.At only 14, I was diagnosed with a disease that no one else in the w …

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it“s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law“s sudde …

Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice “Liesel“ Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman“s emigration from Heilbronn to England. From the decision to …

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3, 5 …

This book presents an account of the life of naval commander Andrew Cunningham, the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. It supplements Cunningham“s papers by Cabi …

Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its …

Henry Armstrong: Boxing“s Super Champ is the story of arguably the most incredible fighter in the history of boxing – told by one of the few surviving writers to have been around during Armstrong“s …

Two months after his twenty-first birthday, a young Harvard student arrived to join his father the American Ambassador in London. Jack, as he was known to family, had no idea how his journey to Engla …

‚A Tale of Four Hemispheres‘ is a highly engaging, thoughtful and extremely readable memoir about a man orphaned in infancy, who survived a childhood bedevilled by ill-health and went on to achieve w …

"My Bondage and My Freedom, " authored by means of the legendary abolitionist and previous enslaved character Frederick Douglass, is a powerful autobiographical account that chronicles his …