Category: memoir

Excerpt – This Familiar Heart by Babette Hale

      THIS FAMILIAR HEART:   AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY   by   Babette Fraser Hale   Memoir / Relationships / Aging / Grief Publisher: Winedale Publishing Date of Publication: April 2, 2024 Number of Pages: 312 pages         In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface […]

Excerpt – Bird’s Eye View by Jan Capps

  Synopsis   When Jan moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce, she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn’t anticipate all the ways she will change. To make sense of her professional, personal, and parenting turmoil in a country […]

#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 […]