Set during the First World War in Portsmouth, Grace is working as a parlourmaid at Mrs Simpson's grand home. Her future changes when her mistress encourages Grace to take up nurse training in the Borough Asylum. Grace isn't sure and her parents forbid her to even think about it, but when Mrs Simpson offers to take Grace to the asylum to look around, she begins to wonder if she should go anyway.

Shocked at the amount of homeless in Fareham, Karen takes a job at the local hostel where she meets support worker Gemma, an acquaintance from her past. When a young female resident is attacked, the the amount of finger of suspicion falls on Falklands veteran Harry who was spotted running from the scene. Or was it John, living rough in the woods, who is resisting help from the homeless team? Karen discovers him sleeping in her shed and offers him help but when he runs away, she follows and...

Ten years have passed since Karen's ordeal. Now her life is full, but working with those struggling with drug addictions proves challenging in more ways than one.Gemma, recovering from her own addiction, is trying hard to pay back her debt to society. Volunteering in a charity shop leads her into a difficult situation when she forms an unlikely alliance with Kevin, another of the volunteers. When she comes across her ex-boyfriend, drug dealer Billy, things get even more dangerous.A tale fi...

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth.Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features 50 different voices from across the Portsmouth community and beyond. Our readers range from teenagers to those in their nineties, including experienced actors, writers and volunteers from the pub...

PeggyPeggy's own account of her life in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. She talks about what it was like to move away from her home in Gosport, memories of school-days, and working as a Mother's helper, living with the occasional air-raid in the village of Binfield, having lessons in art and her dreams of one day being a nurse.

Memoir of life growing up in England, UK, before and during the second World War.The journey of a young girl living in Fareham and Gosport at the beginning of the war, who then moved to live in Binfield in Berkshire with her Mother to get away from the bombing in nearby Portsmouth.

There are moments in life when ordinary people are asked to do extraordinary things.In the darkest days of the Second World War, courage did not always wear a uniform. Sometimes it wore patched trousers, scuffed shoes, and a school cap pulled low against the rain. Sometimes bravery lived not on battlefields, but in the hearts of young boys and girls trying to make sense of a world turned upside down.The Green Flash is a story about ...

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for...

This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist’s work and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more contemporary social issues. While other similar texts tend to focus primarily on intellectual biography, our emph...

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes the difficulties children in care commonly encounter, such as vulnerability to self-harm, substance misuse or inappropriate sexual behaviour. It goes on to explore therapeutic intervention...

Khaliah Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali, shares her success at overcoming obesity through banding surgery—a minimally invasive, reversible, and extremely effective choice for drastically overweight peopleWhen Muhammad Ali's daughter Khaliah hit 325 pounds, she didn't need to be told again that she was morbidly obese. A lifetime of dieting, of starving, had not helped. Miserable, depressed, and unable to walk up a flight of stairs without losing her breath, she did not know which way ...

Revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debatesRick Turner was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who rebelled against the apartheid state at the height of its power. For this he was assassinated in 1978, at just 32 years of age, but his life and work are testimony to the power of philosophical thinking for humans everywhere. Turner chose to live freely in an unfree time and argued for a non...