Books with author John Harvey Douglas

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Four days after Nick Harman was seven, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself on the road below. That was over nine years ago. Today Nick was sixteen. The clock alongside his bed read 7:59.Nick lives on a tough estate in north London. On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a box left to him all those years ago. The contents lead Nick to discover what took his father from being a successful blues singer to taking his own life.Against a background of shifting allegiances, involving the violent gangs on the estate and his first serious involvement with a girl, Nick is forced to come to terms, not only with whom his father was but who he is himself.‘A fine novel about growing up by one of the masters of British crime fiction’ — Le MondeJohn Harvey is the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing. His latest adult novel is Cold in Hand, the latest in his long series of Resnick novels. Nick’s Blues is John Harvey’s first young adult book for twenty years – the opening title of Francois Guerif’s young adult crime fiction programme.

Sadness for some can become a safe place where numbness and limited expectations offer some protection from hurt and disappointment. If through familiarity, it becomes a comfort zone, the prospects of returning to a more positive, less risk averse perspective may fade, and the mild depression of sadness becomes the norm.This short book has two aims. Firstly to encourage the recognition that how we feel is not who we are. Secondly, to briefly summarise some practical theories that can help to free us from some learned beliefs that sometimes hold us back.In the book we meet Joe, a teenager for whom sadness has come to provide some comfort in a life that he views through the opposite of rose tinted spectacles. The author worked for decades as a probation officer in the community and prison, and more recently as a mentor for Kids Company and several secondary schools.

Four days after Nick Harman's seventh birthday, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself to his death on the road below. Nine years later, Nick lives with his mother on a tough housing estate in North London. On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a box of things left by his father all those years ago. The contents lead Nick to try and discover what led his father from being a successful blues singer to the point where he took his own life. Against a background of shifting allegiances involving the violent gangs on the estate and Nick's first serious involvement with a girl, he is forced to come to terms not only with who his father was, but who he is himself.

Excerpt from Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of WarBut, many of them are living, or will live, under circumstances similar to those under which I passed sixteen long months.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

1940. Like most of his London contemporaries, 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated into the countryside to escape a city menaced by bombardment. But Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his father, an auxiliary fireman with ‘Blue Watch’, and experiences the London Blitz at first hand as he works for the fire service as a bicycle messenger.

The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country. Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.