Diaries & Memoirs

A remarkable memoir from one of football's most versatile players and the Ukraine's most invaluable advocate

An autobiography of Edgar Henry Baskerville born in Sydney Australia, covering his early childhood experiences to adventures he had as a teenager including hitchhiking to Queensland and Victoria and a stint in the army. From labourer to Accountant and Barrister. Over three years in the Cook Islands starting from beachcomber with a wife and four small children to head of a Government Department there including an episode as Master of Ceremonies to Prince Phillip and Lord Mountbatten. Back to Australia and later conversion to Islam. Performing Haj and three months Khuruj in India and Pakistan. Experiences during Haj and Khuruj. Three Marriages and a fifth child. Some old age philosophical reminiscences and reflections.

In 1983 an off-duty prison officer was shot by the IRA in cold blood on a Dublin street. Over 40 years later, no one has been convicted of his murder. In this book, his son outlines why justice must be done.Brian Stack was the chief prison officer working on the IRA wing of Portlaoise Prison in 1983. He was also a fan of amateur boxing, and had travelled to see a match in Dublin in March of that year. After the match, he was shot outside the venue by an IRA gunman, leaving him paralysed and brain damaged.Brian survived the attack but succumbed to his injuries within 18 months, leaving a wife and three young sons. Austin Stack was 14 when his father passed away, but he has never forgotten him nor has he ever given up hope of bringing his murderers to justice. Over the years, he has held secret talks with Gerry Adams and members of the IRA, but to date no one has been convicted of the crime. This book is an account of a son's ongoing quest for justice, and his determination to set the record straight.

From an author and podcaster, an "invaluable and hilarious" memoir-in-essays about learning to understand that we can’t earn God’s love no matter how hard we try, and learning to accept the grace that is freely given (Jennifer Dukes Lee). Growing up, Kimberly Stuart got really good at strapping on her spiritual tap shoes and trying to be a star for Jesus. She could sing all the songs, ace the sword drills, and knew all the right theology. From earning creepy Jesus paperweights in her church’s faux Girl Scout program to trying to calm an actual storm on the Mediterranean, she was doing her best . . . and still found herself longing for something more. She didn’t mean to completely ignore the most beautiful tenets of her faith—the unwavering grace and tenacious love of God—but she did. Which, of course, was the problem. Her best was lackluster, and God wasn’t looking for a star performer anyway.Star for Jesus (And Other Jobs I Quit), is an invitation for readers to spot unvarnished, amazing grace when they see it. With her trademark wit and transparency, Stuart brings readers through moments that teach us to cling to the fierce love of God instead of the flimsier versions we find elsewhere. With unflinching honesty and relatable humor, Stuart encourages readers to take another look at unrelenting grace, and why this moment in history is the perfect time to extend no-strings-attached grace to an emotionally bedraggled, wary world.

Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair/art fair/fun fair, in which every stall or ride imitates a real-world scenario or dilemma which must be observed and negotiated, the book moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of the literary translator in publishing, about fairness and hard work, about the ways we define success, and what it means - and whether it is possible - to make a living as an artist. Fair is also interested in questions of upbringing, background, support, how different people function in the workplace, and the ways in which people are excluded or made invisible in different cultural and creative industries. It connects literary translation to its siblings in other creative arts to show how creative and subjective a practice it is while upholding the ethics and politics at play when we translate someone else's work. Blurring the lines between memoir, autofiction, satire and polemic, Fair is a singularly inventive and illuminating book by one of the UK's most original and admired writers and translators.

A fascinating narrative of a psychoanalyst's experience of working with a patient with dementia. It is interspersed with current theory from the literature on attachment, object relations, and neuroscience, and ends on a substantial appendix of detailed notations about relevant articles to illustrate her work and provide further ar

A hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit - the orange - to reckon with the author's own identity and unpack themes of globalisation, colonialism and migration

In this new and wide-ranging collection of essays Ken Worpole journeys to the Essex marshlands to discover radical communities, and travels further afield to discover how new ideas filtered into England, always from the east.

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A brand-new collection of Mary Shelley's work, written during and inspired by the short yet influential time she spent in the literary city of Bath.

Professor Nomalungelo Goduka's spiritual journey began in her mother's womb. It continued eziko-around the fireplace, in the rondavel, in her village kwaManxeba, South Africa. This is where she was received by warm hands zabazalisikazi-indigenous birth attendants. From infancy to adult life, she was nourished and sustained ngamanz' eQala river, ampompoza phantsi kweeNtaba zoKhahlamba. This landscape formed the cradle of her childhood dreams, and gave her a sense of gravitas, meaning and purpose in life. Rhythms from the landscape served as magnets that drew her from luxuries she enjoyed for three decades, in the US; back to her humble roots, to follow various spiritual paths to fulfil her childhood dreams, towards her ultimate destiny. Prof. Goduka's memoir, provides a treasure trove of indigenous knowledge to inspire creativity in aspiring readers and authors, in this and next generations.Dr. Yolisa Madolo, Senior Lecturer, Dept of African Languages, Walter Sisulu University. South Africa.

In 2012, English football was rocked by the biggest match-fixing operation to hit these shores in recent times. An Asian syndicate had infiltrated the Conference South with players being offered vast sums of money to help rig games and net millions of pounds for the fixers. Loyal fans attending matches were oblivious to the fact that outcomes had been predetermined. The remarkable story of how this syndicate was able to take hold of the national sport is told to us by a man who not only played in many of these games, but went to jail for helping to fix them - Moses Swaibu. Fixed breaks new ground as Moses Swaibu becomes the first player ever to write openly about how he helped to fix games, revealing exactly what happens on the pitch when a match is being manipulated. He also exposes how the criminal gangs operate, how young professional players are targeted and groomed and the threats of violence that are used to keep them in check. Offering a fascinating insight into the ugly side of the beautiful game, it's a sporting autobiography like none ever written before.