Chris Newton

Shahnaz Khari

When Shahnaz refused to accept the abuse, she was plunged into violent conflict with her family, who condemned her for bringing disrespect on their name by trying to win her independence. They repeatedly assaulted and humiliated her to make her toe the line. After she left her second husband to get away from the beatings, they imprisoned her in her own bedroom. When they later tricked her into joining them in Pakistan she was beaten, stripped of her possessions, threatened with shooting and drowning and put under house arrest. It was only through her intelligence and extraordinary courage that Shahnaz was eventually able to win her freedom and her family's respect and start building an independent life in England with her daughter and third husband. Now Shahnaz (she has used a pen-name to avoid embarrassment for her family) has written her extraordinary, compelling story.

The Butterfly's Cage

Mark Charlesworth

Behind the Sofa

Hugh Falkus

A Life on the Edge

Tales of Mr Winkle is about an old garden gnome who watches the comings and goings of his many animal friends and neighbours from his seat beside the pond. When the winter nights start drawing in Mr Winkle is sad to watch the squirrels, frogs, hedgehogs and songbirds disappear until next spring, but he has many other visitors to keep him company, particularly his friend Rudi the Robin. He is soon joined by some unexpected friends to cheer him up.

The Garden Gnome

Mr Winkle

Adrian Boots

A Fully Illustrated Guide to Eight Wild Walks in the Mendip Hills: An Area of Outstanding Beauty

8 Wild Walks

Sophie Aldred

Life Begins at 40

Maggie Rigg

William Rigg was born into a humble Cumbrian family in 1911, fourth in a family, which eventually grew to 13. After his mother died his father remarried and he had to endure his stepmother's favouritism and bullying. Despite all this Bill grew up healthy, happy and fulfilled and this book is published as Bill celebrates his one hundredth birthday

A Centenarian Looks Back

William Rigg

From boyhood adventures with roach, perch, pikeand trout to encounters with great salmon in wildWelsh rivers and battles with huge sea trout onsultry summer nights, this memoir is a thoughtfuljourney through a lifetime's angling, from the earliestbeginnings with bent pin and worm to success withbig fish and experiences in later life as an angling writer. It is fullof tales to thrill the angler's blood, along with many intriguing, andoften amusing, stories of encounters with other fishermen, but aboveand beyond that it is an exploration of what fishing is about and whatmakes the angler tick. The author describes this entertaining book as'a little retrospective self-indulgence... a chance to write about myown experiences and feelings about fishing'.

Scenes from an Angling Life

A Midsummer Night Stream

Richard Duplock

With guidance and tips on modern tackle, fly lines and flies, and many delightful photographs, the Little Book of Fly Fishing for Trout will help you to improve your tactics, techniques and your catches.

Little Book of Fly Fishing for Trout

Photographer, musician and writer documented days in the lives of the the Mod and Ska revival scenes at gigs and nightclubs in the first decade of the 21st century, from 2008 until 2012.

Photographs of Sydney's Mod and Ska Scene in the 21st Century

Suited Up Down Under

John Stirling

Never work with children or animals tells of John's early career as a child actor, when he appeared in various stage productions as well as playing parts in several dramas on BBC Television. It goes on to tell of adventures working with a host of entertainment stars of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, including Jimmy Edwards, Marti Caine, Billy Fury, Bob Monkhouse, Peter Goodwright, The Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Danny La Rue, Patricia Hayes, June Brown, Sacha Distel, Chris de Burgh, Lesley Garrett and Mark Knopfler. The later chapters tell how, with the help of a legion of household names from the entertainment industry, John and Annie set up the Michael Elliott Trust as a charity dedicated to rescuing abused donkeys and providing a sanctuary for them. The book features a foreword by June Brown and a personal message from Dame Judi Dench.

Never Work with Children Or Animals

Ingrid Steel

When Ingrid Steel was first put into an orphanage she did not even know her real name. Nor would anyone tell her who her parents were. After years of bullying, deprivation and punishment, Ingrid made a secret pilgrimage to discover her real identity. Little Girl Lost is the first part of Ingrid Steel's shocking, heart-rending life story.

Little Girl Lost

Suzanne Haslam

Suzanne Haslam endured such oppression at the hands of a domineering husband she had a nervous breakdown. When she turned to her family for help, they accused her of imagining it. In despair she eventually plucked up the courage to walk away from the marital home with nothing but her dog and a suitcase full of clothes. This is her story of survival

Journey Towards the Light

Edna E. Gammon

In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter; he was also assumed to have murdered his wife but 3 years later, another tenant, John Christie, killed six women in the same house. Evans got a posthumous pardon. Edna Gammon's new book casts doubt on the decision and discusses what she believes really happened in that house.

10 Rillington Place

A House to Remember

Steve Phillips

When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and threepence. Five years of dirt and grind, legpulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old-fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time - and saved the money - to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house. Steve went on to a varied and successful career in the UK manufacturing industry. Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families and workmates stuck together. Ten bob an hour is a fascinating portrait of an era long gone.

Ten Bob an Hour

Mereo Books

Mereo Books editor in chief posed the question when asked to name their ideal job, more people in the UK say they would like to be an author than anything else. Yet with more than 200,000 books now being published here a year and over two million worldwide, the competition is getting fiercer by the minute. As editor in chief of a successful self-publishing house, Chris Newton spends most of his waking hours editing and ghostwriting books for other people, and he knows all about how books can go wrong and how they can be put right. He is also a successful published author, one of his books having been acclaimed by a professional reviewer as having a good claim to be the finest biography of an angler ever written.

An insider's guide to successful writing and publishing for beginners

How Not To Write A Book - Mereo Books

Beryl E. Organ, born in Bristol in 1928, has been devoted to animals and flowers all her life. For many years she ran a modelling agency. In later life she took up writing and over the years she has produced a series of children's books, all focusing on the natural world - some in prose, some in verse. An accomplished artist, she paints pictures of animals, birds and flowers, from pet dogs and cats to wild birds and butterflies, and accompanies them with short poems and stories. Our Woodland Friends is Mrs Organ's fourth children's book. It introduces children aged 6-10 to the animals and birds which might be spotted on a walk in the forest, each illustrated by a charming portrait of the animal and accompanied by descriptive verse. Older children will enjoy reading them, while younger ones will delight in hearing them read and looking at the pictures. Mrs Organ is working on two further books for children entitled Animal Antics and ABC of Flowers. With her son Colin, a professional photographer, she has also compiled Reflections, a collection of verses accompanying delightful photographs of rural and garden scenes. All her books are dedicated to her great grandchildren.

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