The Memoir Club is an independent publishing company based at Washington near Durham. It specialises in the production of memoirs, biographies and company histories.
Founded in 1997, the company has published over 300 books. The company have published the memoirs of many figures, such as:
RECENT
Chris Foote Wood VICTORIA WOOD - Comedy Genius - Her Life and Work
Malcolm Kimmins At Your Service and autobiography of Lieutenant General Sir Brian Kimmins KBE CB DL Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Guthrie GCB LVO OBE DL
Brian Greenwood Use It Or Lose It Foreword by Nicholas Paul Silverton MDFRCP
John Bridgeman I Remember It Well - The Diaries, Recollections and Art of Three Generations over Three Centuries
General
R Derek Finlay: Ten to Take Her Home
David Hutchinson: Through A Looking Glass
John C. Foster: Looking at Durham Stage and Screen
Eberhard George Wedell: A Post-War Half Century Christmas Letters 1962-2011
Neurosurgeons
Phillip Harris: To Be A Neurosurgeon, a Memoir
John Shaw: A Fortunate Apprentice
Bryan Ashworth: Striving towards Elegance
Edmond Critchley: A Neurologists Tale
Richard Godwin-Austen: Seizing Opportunities The Reminiscences of a Physician
Surgeons
Alan Lettin: Was It Something I Said
Ian Burn: Journey of a Cancer Surgeon
Ronald Wilson: A Mother's Medical Man
Paediatricians
Victor Dubowitz: Rambling Of A Peripatetic Paediatrician
Colin H M Walker: I Also Ran
Military
Major Freddie Rawding: Life as a Curious Traveler
Major Lawless: From Miner to Major
Major Peter Horsfall: Hard Too Believe Too Old At Sixteen
Lieutenant Colonel Tony Mains: Sandhurst To The Khyber with a foreword written by General Sir Sam Cowan, KCB, CBE Colonel Commandant the Brigade of Gurkhas.
Brigadier Neville Pughe: Elusive Glory with a foreword written by General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE.
Harry Moses: For Your Tomorrow A History of the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry with a foreword written by Gen. Sir Peter de la Billiere KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DL
Harry Moses: The Faithful Sixth - A History of the Sixth Battalion Durham Light Infantry
Brigadier Richard Mountford: A Life in the Day of a CRA, the story of a Cold War Soldier with a foreword written by General Sir Edward Burgess, KBE, OBE.
Diplomats
Richard Tallboys: Encounters of a Diplomatic Kind
Sir Francis Kennedy: Dust Suspended with a foreword written by Jackie Stewart
Sir Nicholas Bayne: Economic Diplomat with a foreword written by Robert D.Putnam Harvard
University.
Thomas Russell: I Have The Honour To Be
Geoffrey R Price: Building A Life
Sir David Aubrey Scott: Window Into Downing Street
Dr J.D Macgregor: Colonial Window
Kenneth W Kelly OBE: Working Class Diplomat
Sir Bernard Burrows: Diplomat In A Changing World
Sir Wynn Hugh-Jones: Diplomacy to Politics by way of the Jungle
Julian Walker: Tyro On The Trucial Coast
Richard Wilding: Civil Servant
James Rooke: Trade And The Diplomat
Geoffrey R Price: Building A Life
John Stacpool: Recollections Of A Sit Sit Man
Prof John Robson: We Were Paid As Well
Politicians
Sir David Mitchell: From House To House, The Endless Adventure of Politics and Wine
Sir Albert McQuarrie: A Lifetime of Memories
Sir Giles Shaw: In The Long Run
Sir David Trippier: Lend Me Your Ears with a foreword written by Ken Clarke
Major General Sir Brian Wyldebore-Smith: March Past with a foreword written by Baroness Thatcher
House of Lords
Baron Graham of Edmonton: From Tyne to Thames
Baron Thomas of Macclesfield: An Inclusive Community with Integrity
Baron Mackie of Benshie: Flying Farming and Politics
Lord Nickson: Two At A Time
Baron Islwyn of Casnewydd: Seek Fairer Skies
Police
Ray Gibbon: The Way it Was
Brian Mackenzie, Baron Mackenzie of Framwellgate: Two Lives of Brian From Policing to Politics
Mike Chandler: And Nothing But The Truth
Ralph Petit: A Plod Round Brum
Religious
Bishop Bill Down: Down To The Sea with a foreword written by H.R.H., The Princess Royal.
John Peart Binns: The Improbable Bishop Ian Ramsey Of Durham
John Peart Binns: Gordon Fallows of Sheffield
Olga Rutherford Abraham's: A Geordie in Japan
Richard Ferguson: Listen to the Gospels
Stephen Carr: Surprised By Laughter
Revd A.H. Dammers: Thank You, Holy Spirit with a foreword written by George Carey, Lord Carey of Clifton Archbishop of Canterbury (1991-2002)
Sister Giles: Circle Completed & The End and The Beginning
Brian W J G: Lost Certainties
Female Authors
Joan Bright Astley OBE: The Inner Circle
Dame Sheila Quinn: A Dame Abroad
Norinka Ford: The Flowing Line
Audrey B Insley: The Resisted Exercise A Physio's Story
Isobel Bradley: Smiling in the Darkness
Cindy Coster: Where Am I From Where are YOU From?
Mary Burkett: I Felt Like An Adventure foreword by Melvyn Bragg
Lady Patricia Maddocks: So Many Worlds with a foreword by Anthony Kirk-Greene CMG MBE Emeritus Fellow, St Anthony s College Oxford.
Suzanne Kyrle-Pope: The Same Wife In Every Port with a foreword written by Sir Reginald Hibbert GCMG.
Audrey Deacon: Diary of a Wren 1940-1945 War Years in the Women's Royal Naval Service
Jenny Pierson: A Teatasters Dog
Rosella Bartelot: What Made Grandma Tick
Jenny Pierson: Travels of a Tea-Taster's Dog
Business
Esmond Bulmer: Cider and more Besides Esmond Bulmer
Robin Salvesen: Ships Husband
Professor Raymond Miquel: Business As Usual...The Miquel Way
John Young: Acting Up
Roger A Owen: From Bricks To Beans Surveyor to Grocer
Sir Norman Wooding: Recollections
Sir Paul Nicholson: Brewer At Bay
Peter Bowring: A Thicket Of Business
Sir Desmond Pitcher: Water Under The Bridge
Sir Michael Parsons: Room To Swing a Cat
Harry Simpson: Land Sea and Air
Professionals
Peter Ackers: My World The Life and Times of a Civil Engineer
Rafe Clutton: Take One Surveyor
Judge Richard Cole: An Oxford Man
John Craven: Understood Backwards
Gerard Galletly: An Impact Under Pressure with a foreword written by Dr Diana Galletly Cambridge.
Tony Downing: Water on the Brain with a foreword written by Professor Peter Wolf, Emeritus Professor of the City University, London.
John Duckworth: Weighty Matters: Worthy People
Michael Elton: Memories of Many Winds
Lord Mackie: Flying, Farming and Politics
R. Derek Finlay: Ten to Take Her Home
Derek Edwards: Puddings On Friday
Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington: Those Blue Remembered Hills
Brian Greenwood, ex-Chairman of Greenwoods Menswear: Shop; or clogs to clogs in three generations whose foreword was written by The Right Honourable Norman Tebbit.
Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones: The Coati Sable
Brian Lingard: Special Houses for Special People & Thrifty Homes for Thrifty People
Harry Simpson: Land, Sea and Air
Jim Davis CBE: You And Your Ships
David C. Fanthorpe: Little Tyke
Guy De Moubray: City Of Human Memories
Professor Kenneth Rawson: Ever the Apprentice
Brian Rofe: Blue Patches and Clear Water
Sir Conrad Swan: A King From Canada
Education
Professor Anne Jones Education Roundabout
Peter. R Shuker: Half A Century of Further Education in England
Jennifer Trusted: When I Was Young, A Fortunate life in the mid-twentieth century
Professor. Peter R. Odell: An Energetic Life
Sue Davies-Jenkins: Hang On Tight
Sir John Horlock: An Open Book
Patrick Tobin: Portrait of a Putney Pud
Brian W J G Wilson: Experience Is An Arc
John Young: Acting Up
Roger Griffiths: A Life At The Chalkface
Arnold Hendry: A Career In Ivory Towers
John Mann: To Gladly Learn And Gladly Teach
John J. Sparkes: Understanding Learning
William Johnson: Record And Services Satisfactory
Medical
Dr Michael Partington: Barts and Beyond
Professor Peter Richards: The Harvest of a Quiet Eye
Professor John Richmond: Life's Jigsaw: A Medical Man Finds the Pieces
Dr Jean McMillan: Lucky Genes
Dr Hywel Davies: Uncle Ebe and Other Stories
Dr Satya Chatterjee: All My Yesterdays
Dr Tony Cole: Looking for Answers
Professor Gordon Cook: Victorian Incurables
Dr Oscar Craig: Medical Memoirs
John Hofmeyr: Anecdotes of a Life of Contrasts
Professor Michael Lee: Stood on the Shoulders of Giants
Dentists
Dame Margaret Seward: Open Wide, Memoir of the Dental Dame Chief Dental Officer (England)
Harold Preiskel: Wings Of Youth
Naval
Richard Hill: A Light on Shore
Francis Major: Liverpool Ports
Captain Sam Fry: Fruitful Rewarding Years
Rear Admiral Richard Hill: A Light On Shore
Norman Goodwin: Midshipman-Royal Naval Reserve
Rear Admiral Geoffrey Hall: Sailors Luck
Patrick Martin: Fifty Years a Shipbuilder
Bryan Smalley: Aft Through The Hawsepipe
Nuclear/Environment
Joan Pye: Atoms for Peace
Sir Martin Holdgate: Penguins and Mandarins
Christopher Audland: Right Place - Right Time with a foreword written by Sir Frank Berman KCMG QC
Lord Roger Nathan: The Spice Of Life
Academic
Basil Mitchell: Looking Back; On Faith, Philosophy and Friends in Oxford
Susan Wilkinson: RECOLLECTIONS OF AN IRISH BORN DOCTOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARGENTINA
Professor Gordon Cook: The tropical disease that never existed - A history of ‘sprue’
Dr Edward Hulmes: The Spalding Trust and the Union for the Study of the Great Religions H.N Spalding's Pioneering Version with a foreword by The Revd Professor Ernest W.Nicholson, DD FBA Provost's Lodgings, Oriel College, Oxford.
Professor Peter R. Odell: An Energetic Life
Christopher Rundle: From Colwyn Bay To Kabul
Travel
Carole Bell: Baltics To Beirut
Jean McMillan: Itchy Feet
Tony Goddard: My African Stories
Wendy Brice Thompson: Down And Almost Under
Rosemary Wedell: Halfway Round The World
Historical
John Bridgeman: I Remember It Well, The Diaries, Recollections, and Art, of Three Generations over Three Centuries
Norval Mitchell: The Quiet People Of India
Joan Bright Astley OBE: The Inner Circle A View Of War at The Top
Tony Hare: Spanning The Century
Henry Keown-Boyd: The Lion and The Sphinx: The Rise and Fall Of The British In Egypt 1882-1956
Jeremy Mitchell: Shrapnel and Whizzbangs
Charities/Trust
Jean Hole: Life Saver – Life Changer, a history of the Taunton Women's Refuge 1977–2007
Engineers/Scientists
Alex Smith (engineer): Lock Up The swings n Sundays
Professor John Sparkes: Understanding Learning
Sir Thomas Symington: A Chance To Remember
Mr Chris Thornburn: No Messing: The Story Of An Essex Man
George Tolley: We, Of Our Bounty
David Tonge: Whither Thou Goest
Authors have been reviewed in such specialist publications as The Lancet, Soldier Magazine, as well as receiving coverage in local publications such as The Telegraph and Argus.
