More "heartwarming reminiscences" of Scottish Traveller life from the author of Jessie's Journey and Tales from the Tent ( Sunday Post).In this book, Jess Smith concludes her riveting autobiographical trilogy, tracing her eventful life with Dave and their three children from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhoods, her father's "tall tales," and the eerie ec...

Stories learned while growing up on an old blue bus wandering through Scotland, for readers of all ages who love travel and adventure.I have been a gatherer of tales for most of my life, and I suppose it all began when I was a wee girl. I shared a home with parents, seven sisters and a shaggy dog. It could be said that I lived a different sort of life from most other children, because "home" was an old blue bus. We were known as tinkers or travellers, descendant...

A "vigorous and vivid and feisty" portrait of a traditional Scottish subculture from an insider ( Dundee Courier & Advertiser).Scottish gypsies, known as travellers, have wandered Scotland's roads and byways for centuries, and their turbulent history is captured in this passionate book by Jess Smith, the bestselling author of Jessie's Journey. This is less a conventional history than a personal pilgrimage through the stories, songs...

A "remarkable" account of a family's years wandering Scotland and England in a bus, living the traditional life of their people ( Caledonia).From the ages of five to fifteen, Jess Smith lived with her parents and sisters and a mongrel dog in an old blue bus. They traveled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. B...

From the author of Jessie's Journey, a memoir of finding her own way in the world after growing up in a family of Scottish travellers.As Tales from the Tent begins, Jess Smith has left school, and after a miserable spell working in a paper mill, she abandons the settled life and takes to the roads once more. The old bus she lived in as a child has gone, to be replaced by a caravan and campsites. Times are changing, and it is becoming harder and ha...

What if the very things you feared were never yours to carry?In UNMASKED: How the COVID Control Agenda Set Me Free, Jess Smith strips away the lies we were told-about safety, authority, and what it means to be "good." Through censorship and a culture drenched in fear, she chose something radical: to trust herself.This is not a book about viruses or vaccines. It’s about what we lost when we gave up our sovereignty and what we reclaim when we remember who we are.Raw, ...

What if peace isn’t something you find… but something you remember?For as long as she can remember, Jess Smith lived on edge — trapped in cycles of fear, panic, and relentless health anxiety. Her fear, also complicated by emetophobia (fear of vomiting).From sleepless childhood nights to the exhaustion of trying to “fix” herself as an adult, she spent decades believing peace was something other people had.But through years of breakdown, awakening and gentle spiritual in...

Propulsive and erotic, searching and incisive, Jess Smith's debut collection Lady Smith explores the overlap between private and public violence. These poems investigate the troubled relationship between control and intimacy and deconstruct the messaging women receive about their bodies, starting in childhood. Lady Smith resists the urge to offer a tidy healing narrative, instead revealing the way victims absorb violence and try to live with the long shadows of c...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements ...

When widowed Reywen stumbles upon a body in the woods, she must fight for her life and outrun a killer. Hunted to the very doorstep of a not-quite human creature, the real battle begins. Who is the greater danger: the murderer on her trail, or the entity who has given her refuge? Uncovering her own healing nature, the root of the evil who hunts her, and malevolence itself, Reywen is forced to reconcile her fears with her own strengths while struggling to protect those she holds dear. As vi...

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.“Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and BoneLore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been l...

The divine secrets of the ages, hidden from the sons of men, are now unveiled to us by the Holy Spirit. As prophesied 2,000 years ago, the "mystery of God is finished." The heavenly seven-sealed Book has been loosed and its "Thus saith the Lord" revelations brought to earth so that Jesus Christ's bride-church might do all His will. In The 12 New Testament Mysteries Revealed, pastor and author Jesse Smith helps you understand how torepent fully of your sins a...