Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Help Is on the Way: Stay Up and Live Your Truth by Kountry Wayne (Author), Cedric the Entertainer
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Overview:

Find your hustle without losing your soul. Comedic superstar and internet entrepreneur Kountry Wayne made it to the top with a little bit of faith, a lot of perseverance, and a fearless commitment to his own success. Now he’s here to help you do the same.

Kountry Wayne is on a mission help you get to that next level. Success is possible no matter where you start from. Coming up as a poor Black man in a small-minded Georgia town, Wayne found few legit options to achieve his dreams. For many years he resorted to running his own game, but thankfully friends and family (and one patient probation officer) convinced him that he had the talent for a different kind of hustle. Once he took a leap of faith and began posting short sketches based on his on-the-nose Southern Black truths, wildly funny observations, and inspirational guidance, he became an almost overnight hit.

Now he hopes to help others see that no matter where you started from or how stuck you feel right now, the possibilities for living a rich, full life are limitless. Help is on the way, with his unflinchingly honest, often outrageous, but always hopeful and hard-won lessons:
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Judy: A Dog In A Million by Damien Lewis
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Overview: Judy, a beautiful liver and white English pointer, and the only animal POW of WWII, truly was a dog in a million. Whether she was dragging men to safety from the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, scavenging food to help feed the starving inmates of a hellish Japanese POW camp, or by her presence alone bringing inspiration and hope to men living through the 20th century’s darkest days, she was cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought to survive alongside her.

Viewed largely as human by those who shared her extraordinary life, Judy’s uncanny ability to sense danger, matched with her quick-thinking and impossible daring saved countless lives. She was a close companion to men who became like a family to her, sharing in both the tragedies and joys they faced. It was in recognition of the extraordinary friendship and protection she offered amidst the unforgiving and savage environment of a Japanese prison camp in Indonesia that she gained her formal status as a POW.

Judy’s unique combination of courage, kindness and fun repaid that honour a thousand times over and her incredible story is one of the most heartwarming and inspiring tales you will ever read.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Backing Into Light: My Father’s Son by Colin Spencer (2013)
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Overview: Colin Spencer is a writer and artist who has produced a prolific body of work in a wide variety of media since his first published short stories and drawings appeared in The London Magazine and Encounter when he was twenty-two years old.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > LGBT+

Since his first novel in 1959, Colin Spencer has written eight more and published many short stories both here and in America. His masterly Generation series, describing the anarchic lives of a group of young people growing up in the late 1950s, remain one of the great novel sequences of the twentieth century. Best remembered now perhaps as a food writer, his column was published for fourteen years in the Guardian and his epic British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History reissued in 2011.

Review:
‘A work of stunning candour … the book is among other things a startling indictment of the tortures of enforced secrecy. Written in a straightforward manner with no attempt to gloss over the unacceptable or deny the contradictions, this is a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life’ –Duncan Fallowell, Spectator

‘Riveting. Most people who write about sex do so in a completely bizarre way, as if they have not only never performed any sexual acts themselves, but have never met anyone else who has done either. I can’t remember when I last read a book that was so authentic, convincing, wise and funny about sex as yours. My Father’s Son should be compulsory reading for bloody Lord Dear, all bishops and imams, and every prude and prig in the country. It’s a book that resonates thunderously for me: Spencer makes so much sense of things. He makes such converts of his readers’ –Richard Davenport-Hines –.

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The Garden at Old Thatch by Victoria Connelly
Requirements: .ePUB reader, 3 mb
Overview: When author Victoria Connelly first saw Old Thatch, it was love at first sight. The storybook charm of the cottage made her feel instantly at home, but it was the beautiful garden that excited her most. This was a place where she could create the garden of her dreams with vegetable beds full of fresh produce and flower beds bursting with colourful blooms.

But when summer arrives, it brings sad news and a devastating loss, and Victoria finds that she needs her garden more than ever for it provides not only food and flowers but a refuge from the world – a sanctuary and a solace.

Join Victoria in her garden and along the country lanes of Suffolk as she finds inspiration, peace and healing.

Following on from Finding Old Thatch and illustrated with stunning colour photographs, The Garden at Old Thatch continues Victoria’s country diary.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs

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Search for Nirvana by Robin Maugham (1975)
Requirements: .PDF reader, 2.9 Mb
Overview: Described as "unashamedly homosexual", Maugham never married, and the viscountcy became extinct upon his death. He had three sisters: Kate, Honor, and novelist Diana Marr-Johnson.
He wrote a candid, critically acclaimed, autobiography, Escape from the Shadows (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972), and then a sequel, Search for Nirvana (W. H. Allen London 1975) which he dedicated to his last companion William Lawrence who travelled with him on his search and who assisted him with his work.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Autobiography > gay > LGBTQI+

A review:
This is Maugham’s sequel to his first autobiography, "Escape from the Shadows", and is a very meditative as well as scholarly work. Maugham writes very well about his harsh upbringing (his father was very strict), his difficult time at school and all of his career problems. (Father wanted him to be a barrister, he just wanted to write like his Uncle Willie Somerset Maugham.) Maugham fought Rommel in the North African desert, was badly wounded and wanted to remain in that part of the world for the rest of his life. His North African travel books (Siwa, Notebook etc) are, for me, his best works and he fleshes them out in this book. In particular he reveals the self-censorship he had to impose on books he wrote in the 1940’s. Maugham has many regrets, particularly over unconsummated relationships, but he is not bitter or twisted over it. He regrets not pursuing his friendship with a German, Dieter, but thanks god he didn’t turn out like the Buddhist Briton he met in the jungle. Maugham is a forgotten, but outstanding writer, and unlike his uncle his non-fiction work is far superior to his fiction. For me this is a life changing book, certainly one that will get a reader thinking about career and personal choices. A vital read.

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