From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, USA to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France; from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary snapshots of same gender loving Africans, unsung Great Men living their lives and finding joy in the face of great adversity.

Dr Howard G. Awbery joined the British coal mining industry as a fresh faced eighteen year old and emerged thirty years later, battered and bruised but worldlier for the richness of the experience. In the captivating book, 'Me and My Lamp' he recounts stories from those years. Stories of human kindness, national coal strikes, personal injury, a ghostly warning and ecclectic family of miners who made him laugh and cry. As one of the few colliers left who once filled a 'stint' of coal using a shovel and set wooden props to secure the roof, he draws the reader into an underground world that those who never ventured shudder to imagine. However, his world of coal was not a black world at all, for his mining stories depict a bright, colourful world, full of excitement, challenge and amazing people.

Oxford's Cowley Road has a life of its own in which some remarkable individuals have contributed to its rich and diverse community. Among them is Mrs Icolyn Smith MBE. This is the story of her life from its simple beginnings in rural Jamaica, through the difficulties of raising a family in 1960s Britain, to the discovery of her mission to help hundreds - perhaps thousands of people whose lives have been shattered by events they could not control.

A fascinating insight into the vanished world of the residential nursery, seen through the eyes of Barbara Hadlow, who devoted three decades of her life to making a difference to children in need of love, security and reassurance. Share the highs and lows, the laughter and tears, the triumphs and tragedies of a lifetime in childcare.

Biography, writings, addresses, speeches, family notes of Donald B McIntyre (1923-2009) Ph.D.Sc.; R.S.E. Lecturer of Geology, Edinburgh (1948-54); Professor at Pomona College, Claremont California (1954-89). Geologist, Huttonian geological expert; scholar, author, Scottish mountaineer, bag-piper; pioneer in computer languages APL & J.

John Robertson aka 'John the Hat' served with City of Glasgow Police, which became Strathclyde Police, for 32 years from 1963 until 1995. His book contains anecdotes and memories of some of the funniest and most comical situations which he and his colleagues had to deal with during those years. Overall this paperback book is a funny and at times comical collection of enjoyable and interesting anecdotes which sum up the true human spirit of family, friendship, comradeship and community in Glasgow particularly in the sixties and seventies.

If you could choose your fate What choice would you make? Like a rainbow has so many colours Each with it's own hue In the colours of Life & Love Which colours are for you? Choose them wisely, Grab & hold them fast. Wear them as clothes Make them last, and last. Life is a journey. We wear it and bear it as clothes.

Dogs have been cherished companions to Carol Reeve throughout her long life, and a Not Just for Christmasa is a collection of a tailsa about each one. Following these are more short stories, humorous verses and playlets, all of which will appeal to young people and older readers. This is Carol Reeve's eighth book, following a Soap In My Eyesa , a From Bottisham to Barcombea , a Stage Righta , a Simply Stage Strucka , a DiVerse Reflectionsa , a Murder in the Mountainsa and a The Cob Story.a

In kamera staan vir "in vertroue" en "in die kamera se oog". 'n Leunstoelsafari wat begin in 'n "nursing home" naby Babanango en oor Tuks se kampus loop deur Ienkkonserte, modderbaddens en broek-raids, Harvard se kampus, 12 jaar in Die Volksblad se redakteurstoel en jare as Uitvoerende Hoof van Nasionale koerante. In hierdie geharde koerantman se bars kyk ontbreek dit nooit aan humor en deernis nie.

Born in 1935 the heroine lives through the war years in a working class area of Cardiff to develop into a woman desperate to find happiness and success. Married and widowed whilst still young, and with three children to raise she leads a colourful life of adventure, and self-determination. Not content with the ordinary, her life is filled with her search for the glamourous and the exotic. Experiencing setbacks, successes, a remarkable and torrid love affair, heartache, renewed love and adventures in foreign lands she creates a world in which she, and her children, find the things that really matter in life. Her life is a remarkable testament to overcoming adversity and offers hope to many.

You know you wouldn't do that, Derek Haughton hopes he might not! In this follow up to What Are Yer? Bleeder! the struggle to maintain selfhood against convention and imposed morality continues. Disaffected, disgusted and delinquent after a young life of hospitals, special education, 'bleeding' and self questioning the haemophilic author does his best to live up to his own hard won maxim: Forget should and shouldn't. Do what you can.

Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking emotional honesty as to herregrets' Guardian Books of the Year 'Her struggle is that of women's rugby and it is told here with great honesty' Sunday Times Books of the Year Catherine Spencer was the captain of the England women's rugby team for three years. She scored eighteen tries for England, won six of the eight Six Nations competitions she took part in, and captained her team to three championship titles, a European cup, two Nations Cup tournament victories and the World Cup final held on home soil in 2010, which thrust women's rugby into the limelight. All of this while holding down a full time job, because the women's team, unlike the men's, did not get paid for their sport. Mud, Maul, Mascara is an effort to reconcile alleged opposites, to show the woman behind the international sporting success. Painfully honest about the mental struggles Catherine faced during, and after, her career as an elite athlete, it is also warm, funny and inspirational - a book for anyone who has ever had a dream, or self-doubt, or a yearning for a really good, mud-proof mascara.