Author: Eleanor Anstruther
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805149024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic The Artist’s Way, Eleanor set out on a project to write every morning, and crucially, to publish it on Substack that same morning; a commitment to press the button as soon as she’d finished, and before she had time to regret it. She set rules: she’d do no forward planning, she’d tell whatever story came to mind, the writing would take no longer than an hour, the reading of it, no longer than a minute. What came was A Memoir In 65 Postcards, the personal story that had been knocking about her system for well over twenty years. Questions were answered, and a puzzle was put together. Using the same rules of engagement, its follow up, The Recovery Diaries, became a deeper exploration of what emerged and how she is now. With humour and honesty, from a pagan commune to sobriety, this collection of essays and stories form a unique exploration of wealth, survival, the questions that haunt us, and what makes us human. It’s you and me. It’s where our worlds collide.
A Memoir In 65 Postcards & The Recovery Diaries
Author: Eleanor Anstruther
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805149024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic The Artist’s Way, Eleanor set out on a project to write every morning, and crucially, to publish it on Substack that same morning; a commitment to press the button as soon as she’d finished, and before she had time to regret it. She set rules: she’d do no forward planning, she’d tell whatever story came to mind, the writing would take no longer than an hour, the reading of it, no longer than a minute. What came was A Memoir In 65 Postcards, the personal story that had been knocking about her system for well over twenty years. Questions were answered, and a puzzle was put together. Using the same rules of engagement, its follow up, The Recovery Diaries, became a deeper exploration of what emerged and how she is now. With humour and honesty, from a pagan commune to sobriety, this collection of essays and stories form a unique exploration of wealth, survival, the questions that haunt us, and what makes us human. It’s you and me. It’s where our worlds collide.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805149024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Inspired by Julia Cameron’s classic The Artist’s Way, Eleanor set out on a project to write every morning, and crucially, to publish it on Substack that same morning; a commitment to press the button as soon as she’d finished, and before she had time to regret it. She set rules: she’d do no forward planning, she’d tell whatever story came to mind, the writing would take no longer than an hour, the reading of it, no longer than a minute. What came was A Memoir In 65 Postcards, the personal story that had been knocking about her system for well over twenty years. Questions were answered, and a puzzle was put together. Using the same rules of engagement, its follow up, The Recovery Diaries, became a deeper exploration of what emerged and how she is now. With humour and honesty, from a pagan commune to sobriety, this collection of essays and stories form a unique exploration of wealth, survival, the questions that haunt us, and what makes us human. It’s you and me. It’s where our worlds collide.
The Struggle Continues
Author: Paul Fjelrad
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800460805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into the therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn’t slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain. However, this story of everything that had led up to this moment and what happened next, is being told from the other end of the therapist’s couch. A first-person account of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the life that led to it, and the challenges faced together by Paul his daughter Natasha during the fight back. With nothing held back, this is an intimate and up-close look at how childhood abuse, trauma led to a spiral of self-destruction until the reunion of father and daughter starts a journey on the long, hard road back to health. This isn’t a story of recovery or cure. This is learning to adapt and overcome from severe psychological injury and to accept that the struggle continues. It is written for all those who never stood a chance, all those without a voice who are still hidden behind the veil of silence, and all those held mute by the stigma of abuse, trauma and mental illness that pervades our society.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800460805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into the therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn’t slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain. However, this story of everything that had led up to this moment and what happened next, is being told from the other end of the therapist’s couch. A first-person account of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the life that led to it, and the challenges faced together by Paul his daughter Natasha during the fight back. With nothing held back, this is an intimate and up-close look at how childhood abuse, trauma led to a spiral of self-destruction until the reunion of father and daughter starts a journey on the long, hard road back to health. This isn’t a story of recovery or cure. This is learning to adapt and overcome from severe psychological injury and to accept that the struggle continues. It is written for all those who never stood a chance, all those without a voice who are still hidden behind the veil of silence, and all those held mute by the stigma of abuse, trauma and mental illness that pervades our society.
Together Through Life
Author: Matthew Ingate
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Bob Dylan has spent more than thirty years on the so-called Never Ending Tour, playing over 3,000 concerts in that time around the globe. This is the story of the most recent ten years of that tour
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Bob Dylan has spent more than thirty years on the so-called Never Ending Tour, playing over 3,000 concerts in that time around the globe. This is the story of the most recent ten years of that tour
A Perfect Explanation
Author: Eleanor Anstruther
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 0358120853
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 0358120853
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A "superb debut"* novel--based on the story of the author's grandmother--following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)
Upside In
Author: Scott A235 Hughes
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781800463622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Upside In is a white-knuckle true story of a life to date, which takes you through every emotion imaginable in the life of Scott Hughes
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781800463622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Upside In is a white-knuckle true story of a life to date, which takes you through every emotion imaginable in the life of Scott Hughes
Nomad Girl
Author: Niema Ash
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838596070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Nomad Girl is a memoir, it is about the 60s, the decade that wanted to change the world, and it did. It is about 'The Finjan', a folk/blues music club I ran with my partner in Montreal — the coffee house/music club culture being at the heart of the 'changing times'.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838596070
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Nomad Girl is a memoir, it is about the 60s, the decade that wanted to change the world, and it did. It is about 'The Finjan', a folk/blues music club I ran with my partner in Montreal — the coffee house/music club culture being at the heart of the 'changing times'.
Our Voices
Author: Diana Radovan
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781803130736
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Our Voices is a story of a woman in search of herself that keeps on turning the kaleidoscope that is memory and life over and over again, looking for a meaning that seems to escape her; an echo into both past and future; a lyrical, deeply personal confession.
Publisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781803130736
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Our Voices is a story of a woman in search of herself that keeps on turning the kaleidoscope that is memory and life over and over again, looking for a meaning that seems to escape her; an echo into both past and future; a lyrical, deeply personal confession.
Mannership
Author: Mark Goodwin
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Mark has an unusual history. After losing his hearing as an eighteen-month-old infant, the next six years were silent as he honed his way of watching.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803138599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Mark has an unusual history. After losing his hearing as an eighteen-month-old infant, the next six years were silent as he honed his way of watching.
A Voyage to the Sea
Author: Denis Gorman
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785897977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Denis Gorman’s A Voyage to the Sea is an inspirational tale of following your dream, despite the set-backs that life can throw at you, and is delivered in a well-paced narrative that military historians and deep-water sailors will enjoy in equal measure.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1785897977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Denis Gorman’s A Voyage to the Sea is an inspirational tale of following your dream, despite the set-backs that life can throw at you, and is delivered in a well-paced narrative that military historians and deep-water sailors will enjoy in equal measure.
Dora's Story
Author: Dora Reisser
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589983X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“An interesting story set in interesting times, a powerful combination.” Julian Fellowes This is an extraordinary account of a young Jewish girl whose childhood was torn apart by the Nazis, who made her way as a dancer, as an actress, as a designer, from Sofia to Vienna to London to Hollywood. Dora Reisser was highly successful in her three careers, and here she tells her heartrending, exciting story with humour and honesty – the little-known story of how Bulgaria’s Jews survived the Holocaust, her life in post-war Vienna, and her rise to become one of the leading dancers in the Vienna Opera. A refugee from the Nazi regime as a child, Dora trained and danced with the Vienna Opera as their youngest solo dancer until an accidental fall in her late teens ended her dancing career. She then moved to London and studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a career on British television, in a few Hollywood films and on the stage, she gave up her acting career to raise a family and, beginning in the 1980s, she became one of Britain’s leading fashion designers. Dora went from wealth to poverty, heartbreak and danger, and bounced back again and again, with all the vigour and determination of a Jewish Scarlett O’Hara. She knew the world of Harry Lime and Bernie Cornfeld, the KGB and the early days of Israel, and had lovers along the way. She uniquely describes the hard and painful world of ballet, the exaltation of success, and the despair of a career tragically curtailed. We sometimes forget about the generation whose parents’ lives were destroyed by Hitler and who had to reconstruct their souls amid the rubble and ruins that were all that was left of Old Europe. Dora’s Story is a tale of triumph over every possible adversity, a story of terror and hunger and persistence. Above all, it is the tale of a survivor. “The most moving and straightforward self-appraisal I have ever read.” Robert Hardy “A marvellous book.” Michael Billington, The Guardian
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178589983X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
“An interesting story set in interesting times, a powerful combination.” Julian Fellowes This is an extraordinary account of a young Jewish girl whose childhood was torn apart by the Nazis, who made her way as a dancer, as an actress, as a designer, from Sofia to Vienna to London to Hollywood. Dora Reisser was highly successful in her three careers, and here she tells her heartrending, exciting story with humour and honesty – the little-known story of how Bulgaria’s Jews survived the Holocaust, her life in post-war Vienna, and her rise to become one of the leading dancers in the Vienna Opera. A refugee from the Nazi regime as a child, Dora trained and danced with the Vienna Opera as their youngest solo dancer until an accidental fall in her late teens ended her dancing career. She then moved to London and studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a career on British television, in a few Hollywood films and on the stage, she gave up her acting career to raise a family and, beginning in the 1980s, she became one of Britain’s leading fashion designers. Dora went from wealth to poverty, heartbreak and danger, and bounced back again and again, with all the vigour and determination of a Jewish Scarlett O’Hara. She knew the world of Harry Lime and Bernie Cornfeld, the KGB and the early days of Israel, and had lovers along the way. She uniquely describes the hard and painful world of ballet, the exaltation of success, and the despair of a career tragically curtailed. We sometimes forget about the generation whose parents’ lives were destroyed by Hitler and who had to reconstruct their souls amid the rubble and ruins that were all that was left of Old Europe. Dora’s Story is a tale of triumph over every possible adversity, a story of terror and hunger and persistence. Above all, it is the tale of a survivor. “The most moving and straightforward self-appraisal I have ever read.” Robert Hardy “A marvellous book.” Michael Billington, The Guardian