Category: memoir

#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 […]