Chiselbury publishing sep 2026 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tell Peter I Love Him is a searing, contemporary memoir that speaks directly to the crisis of masculinity now shaping public debate in Britain and beyond.At its centre is Peter O'Shea, whose childhood was defined by trauma: his mother's suicide when he was seven, followed by years in the care system that left him angry, addicted and violent. His story traces a working-class life shaped by neglect and silence, where emotional vulnerability was neither taught nor permitted - a pattern still visible today in knife crime, online radicalisation, and the growing influence of hyper-masculine figures on social media.Against the odds, Peter rebuilt his life. He overcame addiction, became a father of five, and rose from cleaning toilets at a supermarket to becoming a senior executive at Barclays Bank. But in midlife, a devastating family truth surfaced: one that driven his mother to suicide. The revelation forced a reckoning - between rage and repair.Through an extraordinary engagement with EMDR trauma therapy, Peter confronts the roots of violence, shame and inherited pain, and emerges with a new understanding of masculinity grounded in accountability, compassion and connection. He ultimately leaves the corporate world to found a youth charity supporting vulnerable young people at risk of following the same path.Written with urgency and moral clarity, Tell Peter I Love Him combines personal testimony with acute social insight. It will appeal to readers of trauma memoir, social policy, mental health, and books exploring modern masculinity, class and recovery - and offers a rare, hopeful answer to one of the most pressing cultural questions of our time. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - By turns savage, funny, and painfully honest, Sand in Strange Places is an unfiltered memoir of growing up in civil-strife-torn Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s - a place defined by religious zealotry, small-town myopia, and country-and-western-fuelled alcoholism. It is also the story of one boy's escalating determination to lose his virginity and to get out.It recounts a childhood shaped by fear, repression, and contradiction: surviving a brutal boarding-school education, narrowly avoiding expulsion, and once facing the threat of having his testicles cut off by a British soldier. Richard gives a frank account of the physical and sexual abuse he endured at a supposedly elite, now long closed, preparatory school.As an only child, he also negotiates the hard love and relentless expectations of parents who regarded parenthood as an investment. His journey from short trousers to flannels charts his fall from academic prodigy to failure, accompanied by a bumpy sexual coming-of-age, a brief and capricious rock'n'roll career, and how he achieved a literary recognition shared by only two others: Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.Despite all this, Richard retains a fierce affection for the country of his birth - but there's no way on God's green earth that he would ever go back to live there again.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Walter Morris Felix Gamble had a remarkable military career - one that crossed continents, frontiers, and jungles, spanning the defining conflicts of his age. From the Gallipoli Campaign, where Gamble was among the last to evacuate the Peninsula; before serving with distinction on the Western Front in France, where acts of conspicuous gallantry saw him awarded the Military Cross in France. Between the wars, he was drawn toward the wilder edge of British India, serving with the 8th Punjab Regiment and the South Waziristan Scouts on the North-West Frontier. But it was Burma that shaped him most profoundly. Gamble returned there again and again - in 1918, 1930-34, and finally during the darkest days of 1942 through the end of 1944. As Japanese forces swept north, the British/Indian Army fell back in wholesale retreat. Yet, alone in northern Burma, Gamble commanded the Northern Kachin Levies - the only British force actively operating against Japan in Burma, at a time when the map of empire itself appeared to be collapsing. His previously unpublished first-hand account from that campaign forms the unvarnished core of this history. His actions in northern Burma earned him the OBE. He later commanded the Tripura Scouts in 1944 in the Arakan, building highly effective guerrilla operations for which he was Mentioned in Dispatches. A rediscovered voice from lost battlefields, A Remarkable Gamble is this story told at last - an unforgettable journey through war on different continents, remote frontiers, and the jungles of Burma where he successfully led guerrilla irregulars against the Japanese.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Soldier. Reformer. Industrial pioneer.Erroll Prior-Palmer was one of the few men to reach the highest levels of both the British Army and British industry. A brilliant but unconventional leader, he combined battlefield command with a restless appetite for innovation that would later reshape global trade.Born in 1903 and marked early by adversity, Erroll overcame severe dyslexia and a brutal schooling to pass out top at Sandhurst, uniquely winning both the Sword of Honour and the Saddle of Honour. In war, he proved a formidable commander, leading from the front in Normandy and beyond. As a brigadier, he commanded the swimming tanks that landed on Sword Beach on D-Day, then took the 8th Armoured Brigade through every major battle to the end of the war in Europe.Forced to leave the army after a near-fatal polo accident, Erroll began a second career that would eclipse even his military achievements. Recruited into a struggling shipping empire, he engineered a dramatic turnaround before leading one of the most significant industrial revolutions of the twentieth century: the shift to containerisation. As founding chief executive of Overseas Containers Limited, he drove the creation of the world's first trans-oceanic container route, overcoming political resistance, industrial unrest and immense financial risk.A man of contradictions, shaped by privilege, hardship and unrelenting drive, Erroll's life spanned war, empire, and technological transformation. This is the story of a leader who refused to accept limits, and in doing so helped change the modern world.…