Books

This beautiful collection of reflections came about by chance during the pandemic as a way of keeping a Catholic parish community in touch with each other.

Parish priest Father Tom O’Neill decided to send out a little reflection – just a thought or two each week. This is a collection of those reflections.
It is not intended to be read as a normal...

Shortlisted for Best Memoir in the 2022 Selfie Awards

North-East England, 1956. Lively teenager Joan is falling in love with handsome Kenny, ten years her senior, even though her mother warns her he is too old and set in his ways to make her happy.
The girls on the clothing factory production line watch with envy as the relationship blossoms....

Graeme Miles was a man of mystery who preferred to stay hidden in the shadows and softly whisper his thoughts rather than step into the limelight and raucously shout about his many talents and achievements.

Who was he? Why was he driven to expend his time and energy chronicling the lives of the ordinary men and women of Teesside and rural areas...

The remarkable journey of a war widow's only child in bombed-out Hull as he embarks on a distinguished career in surgery.

Experience David Clarke's formative years, including winning a public school scholarship and his medical and surgical training in Newcastle upon Tyne. Join him on his professional journey, where he shares fascinating anecdotes...

Scrub up and step into the operating theatre alongside consultant surgeon David Clarke in this gripping medical memoir.

More than just a collection of surgical anecdotes, this book – the highly anticipated sequel to Opening Up: The Making of a Surgeon, which concentrates on David’s early life through to his time as a surgical trainee – focuses on...

In the gripping conclusion of his memoirs, esteemed surgeon David Clarke takes readers on a journey through the mysteries of life and death from a medic’s perspective.
He looks back at his dealings with the work of the coroner’s court and recalls notorious murders that touched him during his career.
There are candid anecdotes of doctors who found...

The compelling story of the steelworker's son who transformed thousands of lives by bringing joint replacement to the North-East of England.

John Anderson was inspired to become a surgeon after seeing their heroism at close quarters when he spent a year in hospital as a teenager.

In the decade years before he started his work, 12 knee and hip...

Hebridean Solace is an inspirational story of hope, courage and faith in the face of immense adversity.

Mairi MacBride was born on the Scottish island of Mull in 1900 and died in 1980. She was diagnosed with cancer on four separate occasions: the first time in 1950 and the last, twenty-five years later at the age of seventy-five.

Mairi faced her...

Folk singer, guitarist, songwriter, storyteller and patter merchant, Vin Garbutt was the funniest and the most serious man on the folk scene for almost half a century.

Vin was adored by his fans—and, for a period, shunned by elements of the folk music industry. In this compelling autobiography, he reveals the man behind the hilarious stage patter...

Only Tom can save the mysterious world his parents came from. But first he must stop the evil Prince Aldred from destroying him...

“Be careful, Tom. Your power is growing. Now that our worlds are again at their closest, if you do not use it to destroy Prince Aldred, he will use it to find you…"

The pocket watch is the key to it all. Tom got it...

A taut, gritty tale about two boys who live on a run-down housing estate near a railway line.

Simon and Darren look out for each other—always have done. Especially these last few years, since Darren's dad died and his mum took up with Milo. Since Si's kid brother got so ill.

Since girls, drugs and gangs became a part of life, and messing about on...

Rita Readman's stunning paintings based on the lives of the great northern saints who lived in the kingdom of Northumbria in the seventh and eighth centuries.

There they converted people to Christianity, established and ran places of prayer and learning and created artistic and scholarly work.

Thoughtful reflections written by members of the...