| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14225 | ENG1 | Barnardo – The Extraordinary Doctor | Gladys Williams, Macmillan, 1966 | The book depicts the life of Dr. Barnardo the man behind the famous Homes. | |
| 14226 | ENG2 | Desperate Hearts | Katherine Summers, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005 | Tells the story of Katherine Summers and her three sisters growing up in London's East End in the 1960s. Times are tough and she and her sisters are placed in St Joseph's institution (The Towers London). | |
| 14227 | ENG3 | Dr Barnardo – The Foster-Father of Nobody’s Children | Rev. John Herridge Batt, S.W. Patridge & Co., 1904 | A book detailing the work of Dr. Barnardo's Homes and villages. | |
| 14228 | ENG4 | For the Sake of The Children | June Rose, Futura Book, 1987 | Inside Barnardos: 120 years of caring for children. | |
| 14229 | ENG5 | Forgotten | Les Cummings with Jeff Hudson, Pan Books, 2008 | A memoir about survival of a harrowing childhood in a children's home and being placed with foster parents. | |
| 14230 | ENG6 | ENG6 | |||
| 14231 | ENG7 | Not Without You | Alan & Irene Brogan, Hodder & Stoughton, 2009 | A tale of love and loss. Irene and Alan met in Rennie Road children's home when he was seven and she was nine. Irene was sent to Burdon Hall and Alan to Ashbrooke Towers. Despite being forcibly parted their bond was never broken. This is a story that demonstrates the ultimate truth: that love can surmount all odds. | |
| 14232 | ENG8 | Who Cares? | Fred Fever, Warner Books, 1994 | Memories of a childhood in Barnardo's. | |
| 14233 | ENG9 | Borstal Boy | Brendan Behan, Hutchinson of London, 1958 | Autobiographical book by Brendan Behan who was placed in a Borstal (Youth Detention Centre). | |
| 14234 | ENG10 | Nobody’s Girl | Kitty Neale, Avon, 2007 | A fiction of a young girl abandoned on the steps of an orphanage, released at age sixteen and gets tangled up in the South London underworld. | |
| 14235 | ENG11 | Pin Down | Teresa Cooper, Orion Books, 2007 | One girl's harrowing and disturbing tale of institutionalised abuse in Kendall House in Kent. | |
| 14236 | ENG12 | Nobody Came | Robbie Garner with Toni Maguire, Harper Element, 2008 | The appalling true story of brothers cruelly abused in Sacre Coeur Jersey Care Home. | |
| 14237 | ENG13 | Forgotten Children – The Secret Abuse Scandal in Children’s Homes | Christian Wolmar, Vision Paperbacks, 2000 | This book contains a history of children's homes, interviews with victims, care workers, lawyers and police presenting a critique of children's care in 1970s and 1980s. | |
| 14238 | ENG14 | ENG14 | |||
| 14239 | ENG15 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Alan Sillitoe, Flamingo, 1959 | A novel made into a film starring Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave. A modern classic about integrity, courage and bucking the system. It recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy authority that governs his life. | |
| 14240 | ENG16 | Ex Home Boy’s Memoirs – Fahan Termonbacca and Nazareth House 1892-1982 | Brian Doherty | A book based on Brian Doherty's fourteen years spent in various Homes. Includes photographs of children in Homes throughout the years. | |
| 14241 | ENG17 | Barnardo of Stepney – The Father of Nobody’s Children | AE Williams, George Allen & Unwin Ltd | The adventures of Dr. Barnardo in letters provide for a vivid and realistic picture of Dr. Barnardo. | |
| 14242 | ENG18 | A Place of Safety | Angela Burdick, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1988 | A simple story of a young girl's childhood and adolescence in a residential children's Home. | |
| 14243 | ENG19 | Neither Waif Nor Stray | Perry Snow | ||
| 14244 | ENG20 | The Unprivileged | Jeremy Seabrook, Longmans Green, 1967 | A moving social document that mirrors the life and traditions of Blackburn over five generations. | |
| 14245 | ENG21 | New Orphan Houses Ashley Down, Bristol | Wikipedia | The expansion, daily routine, education, developments, the war years and post war years of the New Orphan Houses also known as Muller Houses in the district of Ashley Down, Northern Bristol. | |
| 14246 | ENG22 | Extract from the book – The Bristol Orphan Houses | W Elfe Taylor, The George Müller Charitable Trust | The Chapter XIV - A visit to the New Orphan Houses from The Bristol Orphan Houses book. | |
| 14247 | ENG23 | The Bristol Miracle – An account of God’s faithfulness to the work of George Müller | The George Müller Charitable Trust | A short booklet on the life, faith and orphan homes opened by George Müller. | |
| 14248 | ENG24 | Alone on a Wide Wide Sea | Michael Morpurgo, Harper Collins Publishers, 2006 | A children's fiction book about an English orphan Arthur Hobhouse, shipped as a child migrant to Australia. | |
| 14249 | ENG25 | London’s Forgotten Children – Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital | Gillian Pugh with foreword by Kate Adie, Tempus, 2007 | A book on the history of the Foundling Hospital from its conception. | |
| 14250 | ENG26 | Unloved – The True Story of a Stolen Childhood | Peter Roche, Penguin Books, 2007 | This story begins and ends with a photograph taken when I was two years old. Finding it was like discovering that I really did exist after all. It was as if someone was saying 'No, it wasn't all in your imagination, that childhood really did happen, and it happened to you.' Brought up in South London by violent and abusive parents, the Roche children knew only cruelty, neglect, starvation and squalor. As one of ten and regularly beaten, Peter searched dustbins for food and slept rough when he couldn't face going home. It was survival at all costs, every child for itself. Expelled from school at the age of 14, Peter's life of petty crime landed him in borstal - and exposed him to yet more sickening abuse. Then, years later, a chance meeting with a social worker led to his discovery of a photograph - a portrait, taken by Lord Snowdon, of a toddler dressed in rags. It was an image that had shocked the world. The boy in the picture was Peter. Unloved is a harrowing account of a shattered childhood, told by a man who has finally found the courage to speak out. This is his story. | |
| 14251 | ENG27 | Strawberry Fields | Katie Flynn, arrow books, 1998 | A novel on secrets, a Salvation Army Children's Home and a story of when two girls meet. | |
| 14252 | ENG28 | Helpless: The true story of a neglected girl betrayed and exploited by the neighbour she trusted | Marianne Marsh with Toni Maguire, Harper Element, 2009 | Neglected by her parents and the eldest of five children Marianne sought the affection she craved by her neighbour who seeing the vulnerable child knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires. At thirteen she fell pregnant and gave birth to a daughter in the unmarried mother's home. | |
| 14253 | ENG29 | Escaping Daddy | Maria Landon with Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2009 | The sequel to Daddy's Little Earner tells the story as she tries to rebuild her life after her father forced Maria, his daughter, into child prostitution. Maria tells the story of her marriage into the gypsy community and the emotional demons that rise up from her childhood to haunt her as she becomes a victim of violence once more. | |
| 14254 | ENG30 | Frank Norman – Banana Boy | Frank Norman, London Secker & Warburg, 1969 | A childhood autobiography details how at age three being placed in the care of the Church of England Adoption Society and then spent nine years in Dr. Barnardo's Homes. | |
| 14255 | ENG31 | Antonia | Naomi Jacob, The Book Club, 1954 | The story of an Italian girl, in the time of Mussolini. "Obey believe fight" these are the words with which Benito Mussolini rallied his supporters, but to little Antonia they have a different special significance. The story of how Antonia raised out of poverty to find a life of love and heartache, and how she through strength of character makes something splendid of her life. | |
| 14256 | ENG32 | Crack House – The incredible true story of the man who took on London’s crack gangs & won | Harry Keeble with Kris Hollington, Simon & Schuster, 2010 | Crack House describes how Haringey Drugs Squad shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in heart-stopping fashion a series of raids, arrests, beatings, stabbings and shootings. The book takes the reader into the dark heart of our cities' most violent and terrifying places, showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant and forceful vigilance. | |
| 14257 | ENG33 | Rock Me Gently: A Memoir of a Convent Childhood | Judith Kelly, Bloomsbury, 2005 | A harrowing and moving memoir of a convent childhood in the 1950s and coming to terms with the past. After her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of the nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. | |
| 14258 | ENG34 | Flowers in the Attic | Virginia Andrews, Harper Collins, 2011 | A fictional tale of a family's loss, abandonment, betrayal and love. | |
| 14259 | ENG35 | Someone to Watch Over Me: The True Tale of a Survivor Haunted by the Demons of Abuse | Izzy Hamond with Robert Potter, Mainstream Publishing, 2007 | Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents attracted sympathy from the outside world, but no one knew of the horrific abuse their daughter was subjected to inside the family home. In this memoir Izzy reveals her vicious childhood abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and then by subsequent predators. Finally able to break the cycle, she has at last reclaimed a life free from the demons that have haunted her for so long. | |
| 14260 | ENG36 | The Brotherhood | Stephen Knight, first published by Granada Publishing 1983 & Panther Books, 1985 | The explosive exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons. | |
| 14261 | ENG37 | Naked: A vulnerable child trapped in a predatory world | Jo Hill, Headline Review, 2008 | With a volatile father and an alcoholic mother, ten-year-old Jo was a desperately unhappy child. Her father became obsessed with going to nudist camps. Forced to show her bare body in front of total strangers, Jo suffered at the hands of men who were at the camps to prey on young, naked girls. | |
| 14262 | ENG38 | My Story – A Child Called ‘It’ – The lost boy – A man named Dave | Dave Pelzer, Orion Books, 2004 | The story of Dave's journey from childhood when he lived in terror of his unstable, violently unpredictable mother, to his emergence as an inspiration. | |
| 14263 | ENG39 | ENG39 | |||
| 14264 | ENG40 | Nobody’s Child | Michael Seed with Noel Botham, John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2008 | A harrowing childhood memoir of Michael Seed's childhood experience of starvation, torture, forced to become a sex slave to his father at the age of five, and, after his mother's horrific suicide, fell victim to constant and terrible bullying at school. | |
| 14265 | ENG41 | Cry Silent Tears – The Horrific True Story of the Mute Little Boy in the Cellar | Joe Peters with Andrew Crofts, Harper Element, 2008 | This book is the heart-warming true story of how an abused little boy overcame impossible odds and grew into a remarkable man. | |
| 14266 | ENG42 | Nobody’s Child | Kate Adie, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 | This book uncovers the extraordinary, moving yet often uplifting stories of foundlings without parents, an identity, or even a name to call their own. | |
| 14267 | ENG43 | Going Back | Frederick Brayshaw & Wendy Grant, Eastbrook Publishing, 1992 | A detailed account of Frederick's life in children's homes, with adoptive parents and an Industrial School. | |
| 14268 | ENG44 | Fifty One Moves | Ben Ashcroft, Waterside Press, 2013 | Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of abandonment, loneliness, and rejection in family life, the care system and beyond. Life begins at age nine and ends with him turning his life around. Now he motivates young people from similar backgrounds. | |
| 14269 | ENG45 | Rebel Without Applause | Lemm Sissay, Canongate, 2000 | A short book of poetry. | |
| 14270 | ENG46 | Gold from the Stone | Lemm Sissay, Canongate, 2017 | A book of poetry. | |
| 14271 | ENG47 | Children’s Homes – A History of Institutional Care for Britain’s Young | Peter Higginbotham, Pen & Sword, 2017 | A book detailing the various Homes in England as well as life in the Homes. | |
| 14272 | ENG48 | The Victorian Workhouse | Trevor May, Shire Publications, 2002 | A short booklet on the 19th Century workhouses in Britain. This booklet looks at the principles that lay behind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those entered them, either as officers or as paupers. | |
| 14273 | ENG49 | Boy Number 26 | Tommy Rhattigan, Mirror Books, 2019 | This book looks back to Tommy's childhood when we he entered care in 1964 at seven years old. Tommy recalls his institutionalised childhood in a humorous way. | |
| 14274 | ENG50 | Who Decides? – A Journey out of the Shadows | June Elizabeth Storer, BWM Books Pty Ltd, 2012 | A coming of age story of a young girl whose mother tragically dies of tuberculosis. The uncertainty of the war years. The hateful treatment of her sadistic stepmother. | |
| 14275 | ENG51 | Annie’s Legacy | Ken McCoy, Piatkus Books Ltd, 2011 | A novel on a young girl's life in a children's home. | |
| 14276 | ENG52 | Not Alone | Jenny Tomlin, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007 | A book told with honesty and emotion of stories of child abuse. A story of hope and survival. | |
| 14277 | ENG53 | Shadows of the Workhouse | Jennifer Worth, Merton Books, 2005 | A non-fiction memoir of life in the workhouses of London's East end. | |
| 14278 | ENG54 | A Child Called ‘It’ – One child’s courage to survive | Dave Pelzer, Orion Media, 2000 | A true story of a boy who was badly beaten and starved by his emotionally abusive Mother. | |
| 14279 | ENG55 | Worthless: The inspirational story of one woman’s triumph over tragedy | Marilyn Hardy, Virgin Books, 2008 | A memoir of an impoverished childhood in Stanley in the UK a former mining town. It is a compelling memoir and poignant evocation of life in a bygone era. The book is an inspirational story of hope and strength that can come with true love. | |
| 14280 | ENG56 | My Story – A Child Called ‘It’ – The Lost Boy – A Man Named Dave | Dave Pelzer, Orion Books, 2000 & 2001 | Contains three volumes of Dave Pelzer's remarkable journey from childhood, to his teenage years and through to adulthood. | |
| 14281 | ENG57 | Report of the Care of Children Committee | Presented by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Minister of Health and Education to Parliament, September 1946 | Inquiry into existing methods of providing for children who from loss of parents or from any cause whatever and to consider what further measures should be taken to ensure that these children are brought up under condition best calculated to compensate them for the lack of parental care. | |
| 14282 | ENG58 | On Special Service – Incorporating Homes and Parents | The Magazine of the Children's Special Service Mission & Scripture Union, Vol. 40 No. 6, November/December 1960 | An advertised position for an Assistant Matron for a well-equipped children's home at the end of the magazine. | |
| 14283 | ENG59 | Mother’s Ruin – The extraordinary true story of how alcohol destroys a family | Nicola Barry, Headline Review, 2007 | Nicola Barry grew up in a well-to-do family alcohol destroyed a family. And of how Nicola battled with her own alcoholism but determined to throw off her mother's legacy, came through a survivor. | |
| 14284 | ENG60 | The Golly in the Cupboard | Phil Frampton, foreword by Tony Benn, Tamic Publications, 2004 | A powerful book about what happens when a child is denied love. Son of a Nigerian man and an English woman, Phil was sent to Barnardo's Homes and had a short period with foster parents. This book details his search to find his birth parents. | |
| 14285 | ENG61 | Graduating from the child welfare system – An overview of the UK leaving care debate | Philip Mendes & Badal Moslehuddin, Youth Studies Australia, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2003 | Peer reviewed paper on the UK debate around improving outcomes for care leavers. Attention is drawn to legislative and program reforms, including the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 with some Australian leaving care practice considered. | |
| 14286 | ENG62 | Social Evils The Army Has Challenged | S. Carvosso Gauntlett, Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, 1946 | Chapter VI titled 'The Abandoned Child'. | |
| 14287 | ENG63 | Papers on Residential Work – Children in Care | Edited by Robert J N Tod, Longmans, Green and Co, First published 1968 & Second impression 1969 | Three chapters of a book that contains articles on residential childcare and treatment, which have, in most cases, appeared in English and American journals during the last ten years. 1. The importance to a child of his family by E. Mary Mason. 2. Reception into care - it's meaning for all concerned by Olive Stevenson. 3. The consequences of separation by Gordon Trasler. | |
| 14288 | ENG64 | Runaway – Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor | Emily MacKenzie & Clifford Thurlow, Simon & Schuster, 2013 | Adopted at birth in 1956 by middle-class family, Emily shared a golden childhood with her adopted sister Amy, attending private schools, and enjoying singing and dancing lessons. Things soon changed when Emily's jealous mother came to regard her as a rival. A bored and restless woman, she beat Emily for the first time when was seven years old and from then on seemed to become addicted to inflicting pain on her daughter. Despite Emily's father's attempts to protect her, the parental rows grew more malicious, until the mother moved out and remarried a narcissist widower with alcohol problems and a vicious, bullying temper. The abuse intensified until Emily was placed into voluntary care. And so began a toxic spiral of remand homes, psychiatric hospitals, and sleeping rough. It wasn't long before Emily became a teenage 'working girl', where was paid to engage in bizarre sadomasochistic acts for perverted clients, including a senior judge and a policeman. It was only when she was almost murdered that she turned her life around. Set principally between 1966-1972. Runaway captures the sleazy Soho of the period and the frightening conditions in which many children were kept in care. | |
| 14289 | ENG65 | The Convent – ‘This shame is no longer mine’ – A shocking true story of surviving an evil nun’s care home from hell | Marie Hargreaves with Ann & Joe Cusack, Mirror Books, 2020 | The Sunday Times Bestseller and memoir of Marie's time in a convent where a nun physically, mentally and sexually abused her. |