Category: memoir

#NewRelease – Dwell Time by Rosa Lowinger #nonfiction #memoir #cuba

    Synopsis   Dwell Time is a term that measures the amount of time something takes to happen – immigrants waiting at a border, human eyes on a website, the minutes people wait in an airport, and, in art conservation, the time it takes for a chemical to react with a material. Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger spent a difficult […]

Review & Excerpt – Travels with Maurice by Gary Orleck @GOrleck #memoir

    Synopsis   Find out how I, a nobody from the state of Rhode Island, was invited to travel Europe with the son of the richest man in the world at the time. We drove 19,965 miles through 12 different European countries in 10 weeks. We dined with Kings and Queens in Denmark, we […]

Excerpt – Leaving by Kanchan Bhaskar @AuthorKanchanB #newrelease #memoir

    Synopsis   Raised by two loving parents in New Delhi, India, Kanchan Bhaskar has always been taught that marriage means companionship, tenderness, and mutual respect—so when she enters into an arranged marriage, this is the kind of partnership she anticipates with her new, seemingly wonderful, husband. But after they marry, she quickly discovers that his warmth […]

#NewRelease & Excerpt – The Way to Hornsey Rise by Jeremy Worman #memoir #nonfiction

    Synopsis   This memoir explores how Jeremy, a privately educated schoolboy, comes to reject his comfortable rural Surrey background to end up in the squats, drugs and hippy scene of 1970s Hornsey Rise. The central theme of the book is Jeremy’s need to escape from the intense relationship with his alcoholic, charismatic and […]

Review – The English G.I. by Jonathan Sandler #graphicnovel #WWII #debutnovel #memoir

    Synopsis   In September 1939, Britain declares war on Germany. Bernard Sandler, a 17-year-old schoolboy from Yorkshire, is on a school trip to the United States and consequently finds himself unable to return home, separated from his close-knit Jewish family in Britain. Stranded in cosmopolitan New York for an unknown duration, he must […]