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A portrait in words

Michael Gould, a sixty-year-old retired man, was prompted to have his Biograph written by the birth of his first grandson. He started his first chapter:

I am writing this book for the benefit of my grandchildren; mostly they are not yet born but I am aware that I have known people who have gone down with Alzheimer's and so, although they are still alive, they can't remember anything. When grandchildren come to stay and ask them what they did when they were young – they can't remember.

Terry Webb, a heating and plumbing engineer with two children and three grandchildren, wrote in the foreword to his book An Edmonton Boy:

I am writing this book because I feel my childhood was so exciting compared with today's childhoods. I often tell my own family these stories which they all enjoy and I just felt that if I put my stories into a book other people would be interested. In my boyhood, we were very seldom at home; we were always out doing something. We lived on the railway and by the rivers. What do kids do now? The richness we had you can't buy.

Terry's book can be ordered directly from Biograph Books or at your local bookshop. ISBN no. 1-903981-00-X

Jenny Davis gave a Biograph to her mother:

My sister and I both felt it was important that our mother should tell her fascinating life story while she still could, as her memory was less good than it had been. She is now in a residential home and enjoys lending her story to staff and residents. She rereads it herself sometimes and always says, “I can't believe I've had such an interesting life and done all those things.”

Anyone who has lived to eighty-four is bound to have seen huge changes in their life and it is fascinating to have a record of her childhood in Ceylon in the 1920s and married life with a baby in England in the war years. It is lovely to see family photos. We have also had included in the book a copy of an epic poem written by my father and found after his death. This makes it very special to me. I only wish I had had his story done as he always had a very humorous angle on anything that happened to him and he would have enjoyed the telling.