The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

Through The Dragon's Gate: Memories of a

📁 Through The Dragon's Gate: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood

✍ Jean O'Hara 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks 🌐 English

Jean O'Hara is now a prominent psychiatrist in London, but she grew up in a humble tenement flat in Hong Kong in the 1960s, the daughter of an Anglo- Burmese librarian (later a senior civil servant) and his Chinese wife. Her childhood was a simple one, sleeping on a straw mat in a tiny bedroom which

The Robber of Memories: A River Journey

📁 The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia

✍ Michael Jacobs 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Catapult 🌐 English

Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Columbia, connects a violent past with the country's uncertain present. British writer Michael Jacobs struggles to reconcile his love for the land and its people with the dangers that both still present. Determined to eliminate modern conve

The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory

📁 The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting

✍ Gerrard, Nicci 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Press 🌐 English

"From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journey of the person who lives with the condition and that of their loved ones. Diagnosed with dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on his own terms,

The last ocean: a journey through memory

📁 The last ocean: a journey through memory and forgetting

✍ Nicci Gerrard 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group; Penguin Press 🌐 English

"From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journey of the person who lives with the condition and that of their loved ones. Diagnosed with dementia, Nicci Gerrard's father, John, continued to live life on his own terms,

📁 The last ocean : a journey through memory and forgetting

✍ Gerrard, Nicci, author 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 New York : Penguin Press 🌐 English

254 pages ; 22 cm

The Running Book: A Journey through Memo

📁 The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History

✍ John Connell 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Pan Macmillan UK 🌐 English

It is summer, the hay and silage have not yet been made on John Connell's farm, so he has time to indulge his other great passion: running. John sets off on a marathon run of 42.2 kilometres through his native Longford, the scene of his award-winning book The Cow Book. As he runs acros