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Biography of Care Experienced People The Berlin Shadow Jonathan Lichtenstein 2020 In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, arriving in England to make his way in the world alone, Hans turned his back on his German Jewish culture. As Hans enters old age, he and his son Jonathan set out to retrace his journey back to Berlin. Published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary, this is a highly compelling account of a father and son’s attempt to emerge from the shadows of history. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People Eleanor David Michaelis 2020 This is David Michaelis' portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, an orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, and America’s longest-serving First Lady. Long seen as an avatar of democracy, activist, and humanitarian, Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women. In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, Michaelis shows how Roosevelt converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into a marriage with her fifth cousin Franklin. External Website

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles 10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans Spout 2011 10 Screwed Up Movie Orphans External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Finding Fish: A Memoir Antwone Q Rivas Fisher et al. 2001 Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Lion: A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley 2017 Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Adopted and raised in Australia, Saroo Brierley tells the story behind the film, Lion, in which a lost little boy who finds his way home twenty-five years later. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Out of the Forest Gregory Smith 2018 For ten years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. Today, Dr Gregory Peel Smith, who was in an orphanage and kinship care as a child and who left school at the age of fourteen, has a PhD and teaches in the Social Sciences at university. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories Rie Croll 2019 Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Their narratives include one teenager’s experience in a Good Shepherd training school in Canada; another story of a child who was born in a Canadian Good Shepherd laundry; and three accounts of adolescent girls held in Good Shepherd Magdalene laundries in Ireland and Australia. In these institutions, women and girls became a coerced workforce. Hard, unpaid and relentless physical toil, isolation, enforced silence, and prayer constituted the nuns’ strategy for converting their “fallen” charges into the Christian image of pure womanhood. Within this regime, girls and women suffered physical, psychological, and emotional abuse. While intimately capturing the dark and enduring after-effects of ill-treatment, the stories recounted in Shaped by Silencealso describe survivors’ efforts to heal and rebuild their lives. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Care to University Reeny Jurcyszyn 2015 Reeny talks about her journey from high school (while in foster care) to a vocational college (TAFE), to paid work and on to university to become a social worker. At the time of writing this contribution, Reeny had completed her PhD. External Website

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Artists Al's Art ​ ​ Alan Dapré (born 1965) studied Creative Arts (BA Hons) in Nottingham. He is a British writer who has successfully written for television, radio and publishers for over 20 years as well as writing he also produces art. "Alan Dapré has written 60 books for children & over 100 scripts for children’s TV. His plays have been on BBC Radio 4 and published for use in schools worldwide."I spent my early years in foster homes and care institutions. Most of the things I carried around on my travels were left behind at some point. In one children’s home, I carefully chained my 1970’s second-hand Chopper bike inside a dark coal shed. Then I was dispatched on yet another fostering. When I returned I discovered the front wheel was still chained up. Just the front wheel, mind. The rest had gone. It was never wise to leave things behind. It’s hard to settle down when life is so turbulent. It’s hard to have privacy, especially when you share a room with other children. I remember being given a metal torch for my seventh birthday and sneakily reading under the bedcovers. It made a change from staring at passing headlights out of a window. I’d gaze out and imagine myself being carried away to a real home where I would be surrounded by books and toys and love." External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Good and Bad Cards Frank Golding 2011 Recipes for Survival: Stories of Hope and Healing by Survivors of the State ‘Care’ System in Australia is a collection of stories by those who have grown up in care in Australia during the 20th century and is therefore contribution to a growing body of literature on the experiences of the Forgotten Australians. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Doug's story: the struggle for a fair go Doug Cincotta Pentland et al. 1995 Doug was sent to the Ballarate Orphanage at the age of 5. His mother was ill and couldn't care for him so he was made a ward of the Victorian state. Diagnosed with a disability, Doug spent most of his life in institutions. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography Tricky 2019 Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (b. 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is a British record producer and rapper. Tricky experienced a difficult childhood in Knowle West, an economically deprived area in Southern Bristol. He became involved in crime at an early age, and joined a gang that was involved in car theft, burglary, fights and promiscuity. Tricky spent his youth in the care of his grandmother, who often let him watch old horror films instead of going to school. At the age of 15, he began to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants" MixMag, 1996). At 17, he spent some time in prison after he purchased forged £50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police. Tricky stated in an interview afterward: "Prison was really good. I'm never going back". Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature sound, coupled with deep, questioning lyrics, took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the soundtrack that defined the post-rave generation.This unique, no-holds barred autobiography is not only a portrait of an incredible artist - it is also a gripping slice of social history packed with extraordinary anecdotes and voices from the margins of society. Tricky examines how his creativity has helped him find a different path to that of his relatives, some of whom were bare-knuckle fighters and gangsters, and how his mother's suicide has had a lifelong effect on him, both creatively and psychologically. With his unique heritage and experience, his story will be one of the most talked-about music autobiographies of the decade. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The Sons with Two Moms Tony Hynes 2015 Tony Hynes was adopted by Mary and Janet during the mid-1990s. Until then he was in kinship care with his grandmothers, and in an orphanage for a year. The initial adoption order was overturned and his parents returned to court, eventually appealing to the Supreme Court. The outcome was a joint custody agreement between Mary and Janet and Tony's birth family. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography Jim Tully 2003 A bestseller in 1924, Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting railroad bulls (cops) and wardens of order.Written with unflinching honesty and insight, Beggars of Life follows Tully from his first ride at age thirteen, choosing life on the road over a deadening job after years in an orphanage, through his teenage years of learning the ropes of the rails and -living one meal to the next.Tully’s direct, confrontational approach helped shape the hard-boiled school of writing, and later immeasurably influenced the noir genre. Beggars of Life was the first in Tully’s five-volume memoir, dubbed the "Underworld Edition," recalling his transformation from road-kid to novelist, journalist, Hollywood columnist, chain maker, boxer, circus handyman, and tree surgeon. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir No Ordinary Liz: An extraodinary story of life and family Elizabeth Sutherland 2018 One woman's incredible journey to survive foster care and discover her true identity. This is a complex story filled with twists and turns as Liz unravels her complicated past. Part memoir, part guidebook, this book offers support and resources for agencies, foster youth and foster parents. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Desperate Hearts Katherine Summers 2005 Desperate Hearts tells the story of Katherine Summers and her three sisters growing up in London's East End in the 1960s, where their violent father is caught up in the gangland world of dodgy deals, murder and the notorious Kray brothers. Times get tough, Katherine's father forces her mother into prostitution, and the family falls apart when her mother goes into hiding and the four little girls are placed in institutional care.But with the support of each other and help from an unexpected source, Katherine and her sisters gradually rebuild their lives, ending their school days in an exclusive girls school. Then, on St. Valentine's Day 1974, from an upstairs window, Katherine witnesses her father shoot her mother's lover dead in the street below. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People The Altar Boys Suzanne Smith ​ The Altar Boys explores the live and deaths of 3 victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the now notorious Maitland-Newcastle diocese in New South Wales. One of the victims became a priest who reported child sexual abuse to the NSW police; he was then banished from the diocese, ending up homeless and in poor health. External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 Bart van Es 2018 Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela 2013 The autobiography of international hero, Nelson Mandela, who was in foster care as a child. External Website