Author: Peter Kilby
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405909315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness. Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support. When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again. Peter tried time and time again to flee the terrible abuse that dominated his childhood; his hands held against burning stoves, being thrown from a window and even his small feet nailed to the floorboards to prevent his running away. In Never Call Me Mummy Again, the devastating yet profoundly moving and uplifting memoir, Peter Kilby tells of how he finally escaped the stepmother from hell and started again.
Never Call Me Mummy Again
Author: Peter Kilby
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405909315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness. Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support. When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again. Peter tried time and time again to flee the terrible abuse that dominated his childhood; his hands held against burning stoves, being thrown from a window and even his small feet nailed to the floorboards to prevent his running away. In Never Call Me Mummy Again, the devastating yet profoundly moving and uplifting memoir, Peter Kilby tells of how he finally escaped the stepmother from hell and started again.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405909315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness. Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died after trying to abort a child they simply couldn't support. When his father swiftly replaced her with his mistress, Peter made the mistake of calling her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again. Peter tried time and time again to flee the terrible abuse that dominated his childhood; his hands held against burning stoves, being thrown from a window and even his small feet nailed to the floorboards to prevent his running away. In Never Call Me Mummy Again, the devastating yet profoundly moving and uplifting memoir, Peter Kilby tells of how he finally escaped the stepmother from hell and started again.
Carrying the Cross
Author: Sam Griffith
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Enya Downie, a young girl, moved away from her home in Bermos to start a new life in a new city called Sharon. As a staunch churchgoer, she naively expected all churches were created equal and most Christians were self-sacrificing and friendly. As she experienced and endured abuse from some of the evangelists and others, she was forced to reexamine her ideals. One of those ideals was to face who she truly was. Enya soon learned that her reality was not as simple as she thought and expanded into the unseen world of spirituality. As a being with a higher calling, would she have enough strength and faith to break free of the torment within the church and have the life she wanted with the man of her dreams? God only knows. Rated 18+
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
Enya Downie, a young girl, moved away from her home in Bermos to start a new life in a new city called Sharon. As a staunch churchgoer, she naively expected all churches were created equal and most Christians were self-sacrificing and friendly. As she experienced and endured abuse from some of the evangelists and others, she was forced to reexamine her ideals. One of those ideals was to face who she truly was. Enya soon learned that her reality was not as simple as she thought and expanded into the unseen world of spirituality. As a being with a higher calling, would she have enough strength and faith to break free of the torment within the church and have the life she wanted with the man of her dreams? God only knows. Rated 18+
My Daughter's desire
Author: Maniyar Imran
Publisher: BlueRose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Perseverance, trust and fond expectations will change what seems impossible in the long run. The two friends Fatima and Lavanya testified that they are truly hard workers by leading an exemplary life. Moreover, females, whom most of us feel they should be married off soon so that we could wash off our hands, are infact treasure of obedience and hard work. Once, women are committed they are bound to win everything they touch.
Publisher: BlueRose Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Perseverance, trust and fond expectations will change what seems impossible in the long run. The two friends Fatima and Lavanya testified that they are truly hard workers by leading an exemplary life. Moreover, females, whom most of us feel they should be married off soon so that we could wash off our hands, are infact treasure of obedience and hard work. Once, women are committed they are bound to win everything they touch.
Call Me Mummy
Author: Tina Baker
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 1782837035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY 'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE 'A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND CALL ME MUMMY. IT'LL BE BETTER IF YOU DO. Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummy's attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a 'scummy mummy', who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the media's rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle... ________________________________________ *** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'Disturbing and distinctive, this is a book I couldn't put down' - AMANDA JENNINGS 'Tense and gripping, these characters will stay with me' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTS 'Psychologically twisty and utterly gripping' - LISA HALL
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 1782837035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
'Dark, heartbreaking and totally absorbing' - LORRAINE KELLY 'Brilliantly written and emotionally compulsive' - HARRIET TYCE 'A powerful and thought-provoking page turner' - KATERINA DIAMOND CALL ME MUMMY. IT'LL BE BETTER IF YOU DO. Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummy's attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a 'scummy mummy', who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the media's rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle... ________________________________________ *** A NETGALLEY BOOK OF THE MONTH *** 'Disturbing and distinctive, this is a book I couldn't put down' - AMANDA JENNINGS 'Tense and gripping, these characters will stay with me' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTS 'Psychologically twisty and utterly gripping' - LISA HALL
House of Shadows
Author: Pamela Hartshorne
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447249593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . . . Returning to Askerby Hall to recuperate, Kate finds herself in a house full of shadows and suspicions. Unable to recognise her family, her friends or even her small son, she struggles to piece together the events that led to her terrible fall. Life at Askerby, it seems, is not as illustrious as the Vavasours would have the public believe. But before she can uncover the mysteries of the present, she must first discover the truth about the past ... Was Isabel's madness real, or was her mistake trusting the one person she thought would never betray her?
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447249593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . . . Returning to Askerby Hall to recuperate, Kate finds herself in a house full of shadows and suspicions. Unable to recognise her family, her friends or even her small son, she struggles to piece together the events that led to her terrible fall. Life at Askerby, it seems, is not as illustrious as the Vavasours would have the public believe. But before she can uncover the mysteries of the present, she must first discover the truth about the past ... Was Isabel's madness real, or was her mistake trusting the one person she thought would never betray her?
When There were Tigers in Singapore
Author: Edmund M. Schirmer
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814408840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author’s grandfather, faces a dilemma — he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the famed ‘Tiger of Malaya’. Seeing the fate of the other Europeans, Edward reluctantly lets the Japanese assume he is a friendly German national — only Yamashita knows otherwise. The secret of his true identity remains between the two men only but when politics removes the protective Yamashita from the picture, betrayal ensues and Edward finds himself in prison, his family scattered. The autobiography then moves on to the true-life account of Edward’s son and the author’s father, Hans Schirmer — a hellish tale of a six year-old boy’s quest for survival, alone on the streets of a war-torn vanquished nation, where everyone is hungry and racial tension is rife, where martial law allows the occupiers to summarily execute at will. Amid the horrors of the post-war years, a young boy learns to live, while witnessing an epic moment in history.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814408840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author’s grandfather, faces a dilemma — he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the famed ‘Tiger of Malaya’. Seeing the fate of the other Europeans, Edward reluctantly lets the Japanese assume he is a friendly German national — only Yamashita knows otherwise. The secret of his true identity remains between the two men only but when politics removes the protective Yamashita from the picture, betrayal ensues and Edward finds himself in prison, his family scattered. The autobiography then moves on to the true-life account of Edward’s son and the author’s father, Hans Schirmer — a hellish tale of a six year-old boy’s quest for survival, alone on the streets of a war-torn vanquished nation, where everyone is hungry and racial tension is rife, where martial law allows the occupiers to summarily execute at will. Amid the horrors of the post-war years, a young boy learns to live, while witnessing an epic moment in history.
Death of an Irish Mummy
Author: Catie Murphy
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496724232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
“There is so much to like about the cozy perfection that is Catie Murphy’s Death on the Green, from the lush Irish travelogue to the precise balance between comic relief and crime.” —Bookpage STARRED REVIEW Squiring a self-proclaimed heiress around Dublin has got limo driver Megan Malone’s Irish up—until she finds the woman dead . . . American-born Cherise Williams believes herself to be heir to an old Irish earldom, and she’s come to Dublin to claim her heritage. Under the circumstances, Megan’s boss Olga at Leprechaun Limos has no qualms about overcharging the brash Texas transplant for their services. Megan chauffeurs Cherise to the ancient St. Michan’s Church, where the woman intends to get a wee little DNA sample from the mummified earls—much to the horror of the priest. But before she can desecrate the dead, Cherise Williams is murdered—just as her three daughters arrive to also claim their birthright. With rumors of famine-era treasure on the lands owned by the old Williams family and the promise of riches for the heirs, greed seems a likely motive. But when Olga surprisingly becomes the Garda’s prime suspect, Megan attempts to steer the investigation away from her bossand solve the murder with the help of the dashing Detective Bourke. With a killer who’s not wrapped too tight, she’ll need to proceed with caution—or she could go from driving a limo to riding in a hearse . . . Praise for Dead in Dublin “[Murphy’s] irrepressible debut provides a lively entry in the Dublin Driver Mysteries.” —Kirkus Reviews “Dead in Dublin serves up an interesting whodunit story as it helps push the cozy mystery genre forward into the new decade. One cannot help but be curious to see how this new series unfolds.” —Criminal Element
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496724232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
“There is so much to like about the cozy perfection that is Catie Murphy’s Death on the Green, from the lush Irish travelogue to the precise balance between comic relief and crime.” —Bookpage STARRED REVIEW Squiring a self-proclaimed heiress around Dublin has got limo driver Megan Malone’s Irish up—until she finds the woman dead . . . American-born Cherise Williams believes herself to be heir to an old Irish earldom, and she’s come to Dublin to claim her heritage. Under the circumstances, Megan’s boss Olga at Leprechaun Limos has no qualms about overcharging the brash Texas transplant for their services. Megan chauffeurs Cherise to the ancient St. Michan’s Church, where the woman intends to get a wee little DNA sample from the mummified earls—much to the horror of the priest. But before she can desecrate the dead, Cherise Williams is murdered—just as her three daughters arrive to also claim their birthright. With rumors of famine-era treasure on the lands owned by the old Williams family and the promise of riches for the heirs, greed seems a likely motive. But when Olga surprisingly becomes the Garda’s prime suspect, Megan attempts to steer the investigation away from her bossand solve the murder with the help of the dashing Detective Bourke. With a killer who’s not wrapped too tight, she’ll need to proceed with caution—or she could go from driving a limo to riding in a hearse . . . Praise for Dead in Dublin “[Murphy’s] irrepressible debut provides a lively entry in the Dublin Driver Mysteries.” —Kirkus Reviews “Dead in Dublin serves up an interesting whodunit story as it helps push the cozy mystery genre forward into the new decade. One cannot help but be curious to see how this new series unfolds.” —Criminal Element
One Step From Insanity
Author: Lady Charmaine Day
Publisher: Lady Charmaine Day
ISBN: 0979810000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
People often say I almost lost my mind, or I'm about to lose my mind. You make me feel crazy or insane. Yet few people have actually lost it...went crazy. What does an insane person think about? What do you contemplate as your mind recovers from being insane,what thoughts flow through it? These are the actual words that I wrote while insane. Welcome to the inside of my brain : )
Publisher: Lady Charmaine Day
ISBN: 0979810000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
People often say I almost lost my mind, or I'm about to lose my mind. You make me feel crazy or insane. Yet few people have actually lost it...went crazy. What does an insane person think about? What do you contemplate as your mind recovers from being insane,what thoughts flow through it? These are the actual words that I wrote while insane. Welcome to the inside of my brain : )
Maid
Author: Yasutaka Tsutsui
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 1846882540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people's minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever questioned her particularly unusual ability. Yet, working as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers, with dangerous and at times hilarious consequences. From the sexual rapaciousness of her first boss to the grime and stench of the house where she works next and her third employer's inability to accept she's no longer young, Nanase's adventures are a picaresque journey into the inner sanctum of the lives and psyches of ordinary Japanese people.
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 1846882540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people's minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever questioned her particularly unusual ability. Yet, working as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers, with dangerous and at times hilarious consequences. From the sexual rapaciousness of her first boss to the grime and stench of the house where she works next and her third employer's inability to accept she's no longer young, Nanase's adventures are a picaresque journey into the inner sanctum of the lives and psyches of ordinary Japanese people.
Sweet Home Jamaica
Author: Claudette Beckford-Brady
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
ISBN: 9781843863434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Michelle Freeman was born in Jamaica but grew up in England. After discovering that her father's wife Mavis, is not her biological mother, she tries to locate her real mother and in doing so discovers the island of her birth, and a large extended maternal family.
Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
ISBN: 9781843863434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Michelle Freeman was born in Jamaica but grew up in England. After discovering that her father's wife Mavis, is not her biological mother, she tries to locate her real mother and in doing so discovers the island of her birth, and a large extended maternal family.