Biographies – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Little Mother of Russia

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:05 +0000

Empress Marie (1847-1928), born Princess Dagmar, was the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, Edward VII’s wife. She was betrothed to Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia, a love match on both sides, but tragically he died months before the wedding. A year later, out of duty she married his brother the new Tsarevich and sailed for Russia in 1866.

Source

The Spirit of Self-Help

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

Source

Princess Olga

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by a down to earth woman struggling to make ends meet in the 21st century. The upkeep of her historical childhood home, Provender House, in the depths of the English countryside, is indeed a constant daily battle for this modern-day princess. Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II…

Source

Pamela Hansford Johnson

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Finalist in 2014-15 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Pamela Hansford Johnson’s first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935 when she was 22 and had no literary contacts to ease her path, was a succès de scandale. On the publication of her second, John Brophy wrote in Time and Tide: ‘I have no doubt at all that Miss Hansford Johnson is already one of the most gifted and interesting of…

Source

Standing for Justice

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

“I suppose that for a very long time men will be emotional and sentimental. They will shed sad tears when they see men moving down the centre of the stream. They will devise well-meaning schemes to pull those fellows out of the stream, but they never think of going up the stream to see who threw them in.” HANSARD, 6th May 1931 “Poverty is not a normal state of society. It is a disease produced…

Source

Long Way from Adi Ghehad

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:02 +0000

Chosen for Summer 2018 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction. With immigration and asylum seekers high on the agenda of governments throughout Europe, the life story of Dr Teame Mebrahtu is a timely reminder of a positive side of what has become a contentious and potentially divisive issue. It is a truly remarkable and inspiring story. Dr Mebrahtu, born in the village of Adi Ghehad in…

Source

Travels with My Harp

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Finalist in 2012-13 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE for Non-Fiction Mary O’Hara won global acclaim as a singer and harpist. Her recordings sold by their millions and in her concerts and television shows audiences worldwide were thrilled by the warmth of her personality. Yet behind this public success with her music lay a personal tragedy. Born in the west of Ireland and educated in a convent school…

Source

Stranger on the Shore

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:54 +0000

Chosen for September 2009 People’s Book Prize Collection for Non-Fiction Tracing the life of the author’s father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country’s independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington’s disease…

Source

Saviour of the Nation

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

Chosen for Summer 2015-16 People’s Book Prize Collection. This engaging poem depicts Winston Churchill as a hero, in traditional epic style and echoes the works of Homer and Virgil. The metre adds an emotional intensity to the events of 20th century history more usually found within Classical literature. The narrative covers the period from 1940, when Great Britain faced perhaps the greatest…

Source

Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in the People’s book Prize Winter Collection for Non-Fiction. There are numerous Sue Ryder charity shops throughout the UK, but few shoppers know much about their founder. Miss Ryder was a determined and philanthropic woman who created homes for those who were damaged by trauma and injury experienced during the Second World War. She was born into a privileged family and, when only 16…

Source