Autobiography & Biography
The birthname ‘Naseeb’ was a common name given to firstborn girls in Pakistan and means ill-fate or destiny. When Naseem, as a precocious young child in Rawalpindi, discovers the meaning of her name, she determines then and there to find the path of destiny …
Aubrey Hames was one of the most iconic figures in the Welsh town of Newport in the decades following the second world war. The opposite of a career politician, he was a man of his time; someone who experienced first-hand the difficulties of poverty and the horrors of conflict – and someone who had a true passion for iimproving the lives of his fellow human beings …
The autobiography of an entrepreneurial farmer. As a child, his relatively humble but comfortable beginnings in a tiny Essex village meant work on the farm from a very early age …
This is an account of a leading 18th century Scottish churchman, the Reverend John Witherspoon. His already colourful and eventful life took an unusual turn when in 1768, as a Minister of the Church of Scotland in a Paisley parish, he was persuaded to accept the office of President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Within a year of taking up this academic post, he became involved in the Colonies’ struggle for Independence. He was elected to Congress in 1775 and in 1776 was the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence …
In this moving memoir, the author recounts her family’s extraordinary flight at the end of the second world war from Bohemia to East Germany and later to the West.
This book is the autobiography of one of the old style ‘general’ surgeons – the Compleat Surgeon of its title. Born in 1889, the completion of his training coincided with the outbreak of World War 1.
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