Author Archives: The Self-Publishing Partnership

St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish presents a new history of the district at the very centre of London – a place that many people don’t even know exists. The history of St Giles has rarely been glamorous, but it is packed with the stories of lives touched by many of the most momentous events […]

My introduction to the eponymous ‘tiresome lady architect’ is fixed in my mind. She was, I was told, a vicar’s wife who had once built a house without stairs. The factual information I was given as a starting point for my role as a researcher in a U3A Shared Learning Project was: Mrs Dott, the […]

The inspiration for my book was my family, who asked me to write about my childhood during WW2. I felt that my grand & great grandchildren, & all young people, should know & understand what my generation had to endure. We lived in Northolt, near RAF Northolt, one of the main aerodromes defending London but children […]

I live in Edinburgh and have worked for NHS Scotland for more than 30 years. I’m currently managing a team of 120 administration staff in six mass vaccination centres in Lothian. In my spare time (!) I enjoy writing feel-good fiction. I love the creative process from coming up with an idea, to writing the […]

There are various reasons why I decided to write an account of my early life in Poland, up to the moment of departure to the UK and I happily teamed up with the SPP for the second time. This recent work is a sort of sequel to the book I published with the SPP in […]

In 2017, having been active in the wellness industry for a few years I wanted to get my content, findings and teachings out to the world. I started off with the creation of the logo to give me the inspiration and meaning behind the book.  When brainstorming ideas for the book I had to create […]

Peter Morris describes his journey to self-publishing his Dutch poetry book. My first job – when fourteen – was house-painting in the summer holidays for two shillings and ten pence per hour. Later I became anaesthetist, which like house-painting, has long periods when the grey cells and the white cells, have nothing much to do […]

I first decided to write some short stories during a time of extreme ill-health in my family primarily as a means of distraction. My first story – In the Beginning – described the creation of mankind. It proved to be popular with my friends whose approval and pleasure persuaded me to compose another story about […]

Published in April 2021, 1980s London: Making the Best of It is my second book with Brown Dog Books and The Self-Publishing Partnership. It follows a very successful first project, An Address in Bloomsbury, first published in 2017 with a revised edition in 2018. I have been writing books, off and on as a side-show to a career […]