Lisette Staal Williams puts her own words and memories to a selection of photos taken by herself and her husband during a British Army posting to Ipoh, Malaysia in the late 1950s. Lisette Staal Williams was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark. In February 1957 on a skiing holiday in Norway, she met a young British army officer. They fell in love and one year later she was a British army wife with The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) and onboard a troopship bound for the Far East. She lived in Ipoh for two years in 1958 & 1959 during the 'Malayan Emergency' conflict.She now shares her collection of photos and memories from her two years in Malaya with family, friends and future generations.

This  is the first book in the Photomemoirs series. It tells the story of romance and travel in the Far East in the 1950s. We helped create this book from start to finish using the Photomemoirs method.

Ruth McKenzie Bird was born in Aberdeen in 1931, but didn't stay long enough to get to know it. An only child with a vivid imagination, she was whisked off to the Far East, caught up in the events of the Second World War, and raised to adulthood on the African continent. She almost made it back to the UK to start a more sedate adult life there, only marriage to a young army officer put paid to that... Ruth wrote about her peripatetic life in her trademark turquoise ink, hence the name of the book, and her family hope that readers might enjoy the funny and frank observations that she wrote about as much as they have.

A delightful Photomemoirs project which involved publishing a set of already penned short stories and enhancing them with photographs and other details.

“My father's face is set in unsmiling determination. No longer a young man, he wonders what a new and untried country will hold for him, his wife, and their eleven children. Their entire future lies in the less than one hundred dollars in his pocket, his two strong hands, and the hindsight of a fortune lost...”

So begins this epic tale of one family's arrival and survival in the vast Prairies of Canada before the Great War. It is a remarkable and adventure-filled story, as remembered and told by one young girl, Patty Sutton, the Saskatoon Girl. Patty takes us on a grand journey through the Saskatoon years of floods, prairie fires, brutal winters, boom times, war, and pandemics. Her descriptive prose evokes the heartaches and suffering, the happiness and joys that life inevitably brings. Here is an unparalleled account of life in early Saskatchewan, in the Canadian West.

A wonderful 'Memoirs Makeover' project to transform an unpublished family memoir into a thrilling book.