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Radio & Podcast Simon Woolley Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley) 2023 Simon Woolley (b. 1961) became the first Black Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge. Simon Woolley was born to a Windrush generation nurse who sent him to an orphanage when he was two years old. From the orphanage he was foster by Phillis and Dan Fox, who later adopted Simon. Simon Woolley began his working life as an academic before moving into advertising. He then decided to go university. He later became involved with British politics and served as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Simon Woolley became Baron Woolley of Woodford on 14 October 2019. External Website

Fiction by Care Experienced authors Nothing Else Louise Beech 2022 Louise Beech's 8th novel created in lockdown, inspired by her own childhood care records, by the love she has for her sisters, and by the music she heard as a child when her father played. Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone … she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to play piano on a cruise ship, she leaps at the chance. She’ll read her recently released childhood care records by day – searching for clues to her sister’s disappearance – and play piano by night … coming to terms with the truth about a past she’s done everything to forget. An exquisitely moving novel about surviving devastating trauma, about the unbreakable bond between sisters, Nothing Else is also a story of courage and love, and the power of music to transcend – and change – everything. External Website

Authors W Madam CJ Walker ➝ Who does Australia lock up? ➝ The indestructible nature of Corey White ➝ Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit ➝ Wards of the State ➝ The language we use about children in care ➝ New Norcia’s nuns and the riddle of reconciliation ➝ Jeanette Winterson: the storyteller's tale ➝ Robi Walters (podcast) ➝ ‎The Penguin Podcast: Alex Wheatle with Nihal Arthanayake ➝ Mary Wilson — Dream Girl ➝ Back to Top

Radio & Podcast The indestructible nature of Corey White Corey White 2019 A childhood of abuse and neglect led award-winning Corey White to an unusual place - the stage - via foster care and boarding school. His wit and resilience make his stand-up comedy sharply observed and darkly humorous External Website

Authors H Hackney Child ➝ Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother ➝ The Looked After Kid ➝ The King Of The Barbareens ➝ The Girl in the Purple Dress: My Adoption Story ➝ Daughters of Nazareth ➝ Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee ➝ You Don't Look Adopted ➝ Flo: child migrant from Liverpool ➝ Walk On: The Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia ➝ Lowborn ➝ The Sons with Two Moms ➝ The Convent ➝ Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class ➝ The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia ➝ Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy ➝ I'll Love You If... ➝ Back to Top

Academic Books & Book Chapters Leaving care (out of print) Stein, Mike. et al 1986 Professor Mike Stein (Author), Kate Carey (Author). Each year about 14,000 young people aged between 16 and 19 leave the care of local authorities. Far from seeing themselves as on the threshold of adulthood, they are faced with a variety of problems - nowhere to live, little money and few friends or relatives to help them make the adjustment. Despite their predicament very little research has been done on the subject. This book concentrates on this neglected area. For two and a half years Kate Carey and Mike Stein maintained contact with a group of young people who left care in 1982, and, unlike previous studies, their research included those leaving foster care and "home on trial". The book makes extensive use of detailed first-hand accounts to examine how the young people made the transition from care. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for policy, law and practice and offer a strong challenge to the developing consensus view of "independence training" as the main basis of leaving care policy. The text is essential reading for those in contact with or concerned with young people in care. External Website

Authors G Goodwood ➝ Half A World Away ➝ Cousins ➝ Bitter Wash Road ➝ Secrets of the Sea House ➝ A Room Made of Leaves ➝ Lessons in Chemistry ➝ Starlings ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir The Looked After Kid Paolo Hewitt 2003 Placed in care at a very early age, Paolo Hewitt went to live with a foster family where he endured extreme abuse and humiliation. Following years of abuse he was sent to Burbank children's home at the age of ten where he met a gang of children. Like him they were outsiders struggling to find their place in the world. External Website

Radio & Podcast Anton Clifford-Motopi on finding his full name Conversations (Anton Clifford-Motopi) ➝ Adoption and moral obligation The Philosopher's Zone ➝ Pieces of a Man BBC Radio 4 ➝ Voices in Action Voices in Action ➝ The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie BBC Radio 4 ➝ How 700 Polish children made an unlikely journey from the depths of Siberia to the New Zealand countryside. Stories from the Eastern West ➝ Prince Alamayu Great Lives (Sissay) ➝ The UpEND Podcast The UpEND Podcast ➝ Madam CJ Walker You're Dead to Me (Madam CJ Walker) ➝ My long-lost sister was a surrogate mother to my twins BBC Outlook ➝ A Sea-Brooding Poet TLS Podcast ➝ Malik and Mark Descendants ➝ Redacted Lives Redacted Lives ➝ The floating hell of prison hulks History Extra Podcast ➝ Stolen (2021) Stolen ➝ Better Reading Top 100: Criag Silvey on the Books that Shaped his Childhood Better Reading ➝ How Brendan Watkins claimed his birthright Conversations (Brendan Watkins) ➝ Charlie Chaplin's Funny Walk and Other Music Hall Mysteries The History Listen ➝ Robi Walters (podcast) A life made beautiful by rubbish ➝ One Another (Podcast) Read This (Gail Jones ➝ The 'Troubled Teen' Industry Truth & Consequences ➝ Who does Australia lock up? Seriously Social ➝ Guilty feminist Deborah Frances-White Conversations ➝ Darcey & Chloe - How the system failed to save two baby girls Background Briefing (3) ➝ Jackie Kay Desert Island Discs ➝ The Unfinished Prince Stuff the British Stole ➝ Childen locked away: Britain's modern bedlam Slow News ➝ James VI and I: Life of the Week History Extra Podcast ➝ The Imprint Weekly Podcast The Imprint Weekly Podcast ➝ Patricia Cornwell (podcast) World Book Club ➝ Jackie Kay: Trumpet World Book Club ➝ Douglass on Slavery Talking Politics: History of Ideas ➝ Stripped of my spirituality Heart and Soul ➝ My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners Malik Al Nasir ➝ Frank Auerbach This Cultural Life (Frank Auerbach) ➝ The orphan hero: George King Helen Berry ➝ Foundling: Found Episode 7, Mo Jamil Julian Brown ➝ Season 3, Episode 6 Dee Michell and Rosie Canning on Care Experience & Culture - Trauma Resonance Resilience Lisa Cherry ➝ Hamilton: the man behind the musical History Extra ➝ The IMO Podcast: open and honest conversations with care leavers IMO ➝ Betty, Queen of Donks Betty Klimenko ➝ Loco Parentis Podcast Twayna Mayne ➝ The Horror Writer: Edgar Allan Poe Denis O’Hare ➝ ‎John Lennon - Part 1: Composer of Longing on Apple Podcasts Personology ➝ The babies of Holnicote House Deborah Prior ➝ Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller - Broadway and me Jeffrey Seller ➝ BBC Radio 4 - Child of the State Lemn Sissay ➝ An ode to the telephone Melanie Tait ➝ The wisdom of deep listening: Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and Fleur Magick Dennis Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann ➝ New Norcia’s nuns and the riddle of reconciliation Veronica Willaway ➝ Jeanette Winterson: the storyteller's tale Jeanette Winterson ➝ Sherlock Holmes The Rest is History ➝ May Wirth: bareback riding queen The History Listen ➝ How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland History Extra ➝ JRR Tolkien's religious legacy God Forbid ➝ Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley BBC Sounds ➝ Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century Start the Week ➝ The mums accused of poisoning their kids Background Briefing ➝ Discovering you are not who you thought you were ABC God Forbid ➝ Today in Focus: Bangladesh The Guardian ➝ Life of the Week: Frederick Douglass History Extra (Frederick Douglass) ➝ Maya Angelou (radio) World Book Club ➝ Lemn Sissay Is the One and Only BBC Sounds (Sissay) ➝ Remembering Randall Remembering Randall ➝ Stupid crooks, crooked cops and honest John Conversations ➝ Frederick Douglas You're Dead to Me (3) ➝ A free lunch Life Changing with Jane Garvey ➝ Each and Every Child Each and Every Child ➝ Episode 237. Marilyn Monroe The Rest is History 2 ➝ Rousseau on Inequality Talking Politics: History of Ideas ➝ Why Bond and the Beatles ruled the sixties History Extra ➝ The kids who broke out of detention Background Briefing ➝ An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain History Extra Podcast (Besant) ➝ How Superman Defeated the KKK (in Real Life): Hear the World Changing 1946 Radio Drama Open Culture ➝ Edward Gibbon In Our Time ➝ The 31: Ukraine's stolen children Slow News (2) ➝ Margo O'Byrne Fremantle Shipping News ➝ Mary & George: the real history behind the new drama History Extra Podcast ➝ Episode 74 - The Care Experienced Conference The Adoption and Fostering Podcast ➝ Can new scientific evidence prove a convicted child-killer is innocent? | 60 Minutes Australia 60 Minutes Australia ➝ Samantha Morton on Growing Up in the Care Ssytem and Facing Adversity in the Acting World. Louis Theroux Podcast Samantha Morton ➝ Trans-national adoption and "blending in" The Philosopher's Zone ➝ Alone with J.S. Bach The History Listen ➝ What Just Happened? LRB Conversations ➝ The Poet: Dr. Maya Angelou American Masters ➝ Episode 5. Person With Care Experience - BBC Sounds Small Axe ➝ Mother of Lion, Sue Brierley, tells her story Sue Brierley ➝ Foundling: Found - a new podcast series Julian Brown ➝ Inside A Mountain PodBean Development ➝ Jenni Fagan 12 Podcast Episodes Jenni Fagan ➝ Trevor Jordan: adoption and the ethics of secrets Trevor Jordan ➝ A Journey through the Disney Animated Classics Daniel Lammin ➝ Karen Menzies' hidden Aboriginal heritage Karen Menzies ➝ A mother I never knew — the secret of Peter Papathanasiou Peter Papathanasiou ➝ The Joy of Dickens Johnny Pitts et al. ➝ In and out of strife: Vickie Roach's turbulent life Vickie Roach ➝ Series 4 Episode 1 Birth & Justice ➝ From the Festivals — Lemn Sissay Lemn Sissay ➝ When Robert met Maida Robert Tickner ➝ ‎The Penguin Podcast: Alex Wheatle with Nihal Arthanayake Alex Wheatle et al ➝ Mary Wilson — Dream Girl Mary Wilson ➝ A Reading Life, A Writing Life A Reading Life, A Writing Life ➝ Child removal, women & class Surviving Society ➝ From ‘devil’s child’ to star ballerina | Michaela DePrince Ted Talks ➝ The forgotten children of the Empire Conversations ➝ Philip Pullman (BBC) World Book Club ➝ The unusual life of Elizabeth Macarthur Conversations ➝ Andrea Levy - Small Island World Book Club ➝ Adoptees Crossing Lines Adoptees Crossing Lines ➝ Stacey Halls Bookclub ➝ Rhys Stephenson and Esther Manito A Good Read ➝ Christmas with Charles Dickens BBC You're Dead to Me ➝ The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith The Bookshelf ➝ Mary lawson: Crow Lake BBC Book Club (Crow Lake) ➝ How Stephen sang himself to life Conversations (Stephen Smith) ➝ Simon Woolley Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley) ➝ Wards of the State Karlos Dillard ➝ Jennifer Down and Jonathan Franzen relive the 1970s The Book Show ➝ The green suitcase and the secret family Conversations ➝ Patricia Cornwell This Cultural Life ➝ Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret BBC Outlook ➝ Charlie Chaplin Dan Snow's History Hit ➝ Steven O'Riordan The Magdalenes and I ➝ Dickens vs Tolstoy Intelligence Squared ➝ Eleanor Roosevelt Short History of (JRR Tolkien) ➝ PG Wodehouse Great Lives ➝ The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp BBC Outlook ➝ The Missing Magdalens History Listen ➝ Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire Empire ➝ Dr Johnson's Black Heir Empire ➝ Forest hermit to Professor:Dr Gregory P Smith TEDxTalks ➝ Muhammad, Cervantes and the Algarve LRB Podcast ➝ Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking Great Lives ➝ The language we use about children in care Word of Mouth ➝ The Songwriter: Willie Nelson American Masters ➝ Peter Bell and the singular quest of Kyung Ae Peter Bell ➝ Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte ➝ Uncle Jack Charles: not true blue, true blak Jack Charles ➝ Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens ➝ Matthew Henson: Courageous Discoverer Despite Racism Matthew Henson ➝ Poet Jackie Kay traces her journey to her birth parents Jackie Kay ➝ Nina Bernstein and June Norton on Ella Fitzgerald American Masters ➝ BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature Joyce Carol Oates ➝ John Lennon - Part 2: Joined to Yoko on Apple Podcasts Personology ➝ Edgar Allan Poe In Our Time (Poe) ➝ ‎Daddy-Less Issues Podcast on Apple Podcasts Chanel Ali Rollo et al. ➝ The Children of Morelia Destry Maria Sibley ➝ The Bed Under the Stairs Lemn Sissay ➝ JRR Tolkien Short History of (JRR Tolkien) ➝ The indestructible nature of Corey White Corey White ➝ Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Mommie Deariest (film) ​ ➝ The Protege ​ ➝ My Father's Violin ​ ➝ Superman ​ ➝ A Thousand and One ​ ➝ Seriously Funny [the story of Corey White] ​ ➝ Atomised ​ ➝ Christmas Comes But Once A Year ​ ➝ The Song of Names ​ ➝ Instant Family ​ ➝ Sex in a Cold Climate ​ ➝ The Thirteenth Year ​ ➝ A Walz Through the Hills (Film) ​ ➝ The Christmas Bunny ​ ➝ Fathers and Daughters ​ ➝ The BFG (film) ​ ➝ Surviving the Storm ​ ➝ Life in a Trash Bag: Restoring Dignity to Foster Children ​ ➝ Wash My Soul in the River's Flow ​ ➝ Inside Story: Mini ​ ➝ The Girl in the Spider's Web (film) ​ ➝ A child of the state ​ ➝ Ladybird, Ladybird ​ ➝ The Magdalene Sisters ​ ➝ Small Axe, Series 1, Alex Wheatle ​ ➝ News of the World ​ ➝ The Changeling (1980) ​ ➝ The Rise of Skywalker ​ ➝ Case 39 ​ ➝ Evelyn ​ ➝ The Last Black Man in San Francisco ​ ➝ Cousins ​ ➝ Never Let Me Go (film) ​ ➝ The Woman in the Window (film) ​ ➝ Foster Care Films - Community Engagement Project ​ ➝ The Grinch ​ ➝ Continuous Voices ​ ➝ Kiri ​ ➝ Star Wars: The Force Awakens ​ ➝ Hunt for the Wilderpeople ​ ➝ December Boys ​ ➝ White Oleander (film) ​ ➝ Uncle Jack Charles ​ ➝ Zoey to the Max ​ ➝ Eighty Twenty: Mark Opitz Remembers ​ ➝ Misha and the Wolves ​ ➝ Gemini Man ​ ➝ The Christmas Note ​ ➝ How the Grinch Stole Christmas ​ ➝ Foster Boy ​ ➝ Orphans (1998) ​ ➝ No Reservations ​ ➝ The Goldfinch (2019) ​ ➝ Living Through the Holocaust ​ ➝ Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues ​ ➝ Film | DrumCamFilms ​ ➝ Split Up in Care - Life Without Siblings ​ ➝ Scrooge ​ ➝ The Changeling (crime drama) ​ ➝ Just Us (TV Film) ​ ➝ Two Heads Creek ​ ➝ The Batman ​ ➝ Newsies ​ ➝ Mothering Sunday (film) ​ ➝ The Thirteenth Tale ​ ➝ Intimate Relations ​ ➝ Stolen (2011) ​ ➝ The Inheritance (film) ​ ➝ A Cry from the Streets ​ ➝ Pray for Our Sinners ​ ➝ Lilo & Stitch ​ ➝ The Forgotten Maggies ​ ➝ Slumberland ​ ➝ Fugitive Pieces ​ ➝ Marilyn, Her Final Secret ​ ➝ Speak Out 1986 ​ ➝ The Unloved ​ ➝ The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes ​ ➝ Resistance ​ ➝ Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot ​ ➝ Mr Pip (film) ​ ➝ You be the Judge ​ ➝ Dorian Gray ​ ➝ Lucky ​ ➝ Careful, He Might Hear You ​ ➝ Dear Daughter ​ ➝ Christmas Child ​ ➝ Cabrini ​ ➝ Santa Claus: The Movie ​ ➝ Rocks ​ ➝ He Even Has Your Eyes ​ ➝ Carefree ​ ➝ Black or White ​ ➝ Seeking Justice ​ ➝ A Mother Finds Her Lost Child After a 40-year search ​ ➝ Cruella ​ ➝ One Life ​ ➝ Hamilton ​ ➝ Black and in Care Video 1984 ​ ➝ Child 44 ​ ➝ Mao's Last Dancer ​ ➝ Housesitter ​ ➝ Slim and I ​ ➝ An Angel for May ​ ➝ The Cider House Rules (1999) ​ ➝ Brian Banks ​ ➝ Mosquito Squadron ​ ➝ Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom ​ ➝ Blue Miracle ​ ➝ Mr Church ​ ➝ Take Care of Maya ​ ➝ Something to be proud of - a film by Kinship ​ ➝ Taking Hold of Our Heritage (film) ​ ➝ The Secret Garden ​ ➝ Batman ​ ➝ Lamb (Film) ​ ➝ Suffragette ​ ➝ Baby Driver ​ ➝ Without Gorky ​ ➝ Redress: Breaking The Silence ​ ➝ We Have a Ghost ​ ➝ The Kid (1921) ​ ➝ Little Women (film) ​ ➝ Care Experience & Culture You Tube Channel ​ ➝ Dr. No ​ ➝ Three Identical Strangers ​ ➝ Mighty Aphrodite ​ ➝ A.I. Artificial Intelligence ​ ➝ Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story ​ ➝ The Mission ​ ➝ Despicable Me ​ ➝ Lloyd Kelly shares his foster story ​ ➝ Steve Jobs ​ ➝ Hillbilly Elegy ​ ➝ Trade Secrets 1: Maria Amidu on making a living and working internationally ​ ➝ Foreign Correspondent: Saving the Children ​ ➝ One Good Turn starring Norman Wisdom ​ ➝ Collateral ​ ➝ The Windermere Children ​ ➝ Stormbreaker ​ ➝ Easy A ​ ➝ The Personal History of David Copperfield ​ ➝ Girl in the Picture ​ ➝ The Sleeper ​ ➝ The One Percent - We have dreams and aspirations ​ ➝ Sharper ​ ➝ Louis Theroux: Saville ​ ➝ StephiRaye ​ ➝ Foster ​ ➝ Blonde ​ ➝ Orphan ​ ➝ Everyone Provides Kinship Care ​ ➝ Elf ​ ➝ Storm Damage ​ ➝ Land Without God ​ ➝ August Rush ​ ➝ Clan Library ​ ➝ The Last Tree ​ ➝ The Sea Beast ​ ➝ The Beautiful Game ​ ➝ A Family Affair ​ ➝ The Importance of Being Earnest ​ ➝ Mixed Blessings ​ ➝ Conviction ​ ➝ Sleepers ​ ➝ Christmas Oranges ​ ➝ States of Fear ​ ➝ Dustbin Baby ​ ➝ The Wizard of Oz ​ ➝ The Butcher Boy (film) ​ ➝ Stolen Spirits ​ ➝ The Illustrated Mum (TV movie) ​ ➝ The Chaperone (2018) ​ ➝ Proud Mary ​ ➝ Luce ​ ➝ Spiderman ​ ➝ Pan ​ ➝ The Witches ​ ➝ Auntie Mame ​ ➝ Urban Hymn ​ ➝ Shooting Fish ​ ➝ 12 Mighty Orphans ​ ➝ Enola Holmes 2 ​ ➝ The Wonder ​ ➝ You Are My Home ​ ➝ Goodnight, Mister Tom ​ ➝ The Life Ahead ​ ➝ Bessie ​ ➝ Boy ​ ➝ Magnolia (film) ​ ➝ Hysteria ​ ➝ Lost Girls ​ ➝ For Love ​ ➝ Terminator 2: Judgement Day ​ ➝ The Missing Children ​ ➝ The Secret of Roan Inish ​ ➝ First Christmas ​ ➝ The Proposal ​ ➝ America ​ ➝ Wild Rose ​ ➝ Vidal Sassoon: The Movie ​ ➝ Northern NSW Football Indigenous Round 28-30 May 2021 ​ ➝ Memoirs of a Survivor ​ ➝ The Real Mo Farah ​ ➝ James Bond Series ​ ➝ The Last Jedi ​ ➝ Jedda ​ ➝ The Department ​ ➝ The Quiet Girl ​ ➝ Kids ​ ➝ Good Will Hunting ​ ➝ Matilda The Musical ​ ➝ Angels & Demons ​ ➝ Patrik, Age 1.5 ​ ➝ The Blind Side ​ ➝ De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) ​ ➝ Re-homing': America's shocking trade in unwanted children ​ ➝ Lion ​ ➝ Finding Neverland (film) ​ ➝ Where the Crawdads Sing (film) ​ ➝ The Talented Mr Ripley (Film) ​ ➝ Four Brothers ​ ➝ The Last Daughter ​ ➝ Sunshine Christmas ​ ➝ Orphans of Isis ​ ➝ Midnight at the Pera Palace ​ ➝ Orphans (1987) ​ ➝ Shirley (Film) ​ ➝ Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story ​ ➝ Shazam! ​ ➝ A Little Princess (Film) ​ ➝ Mesmerized ​ ➝ Gosford Park ​ ➝ Found ​ ➝ Identity Thief ​ ➝ Summerland ​ ➝ Somers Town ​ ➝ James and the Giant Peach ​ ➝ Anne of Green Gables (tv film) ​ ➝ Oranges and Sunshine ​ ➝ The Pale Blue Eye (film) ​ ➝ Farming ​ ➝ High Ground ​ ➝ The Hurricane ​ ➝ Motherless Children ​ ➝ The Harder They Fall ​ ➝ The Book Thief (film) ​ ➝ The Strays ​ ➝ Us to You ​ ➝ Jojo Rabbitt ​ ➝ Philomena ​ ➝ Rabbit-Proof Fence ​ ➝ Nothing Compares ​ ➝ The Postcard Killings ​ ➝ Boys Town (Film) ​ ➝ Jane Eyre (film) ​ ➝ Limbo ​ ➝ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ​ ➝ Enola Holmes ​ ➝ The Limehouse Golem ​ ➝ The Silencing ​ ➝ The Marvellous Martha ​ ➝ From Time to Time ​ ➝ Paper Lives ​ ➝ The Power of One ​ ➝ Christmas Story ​ ➝ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story ​ ➝ The Reality of Foster Care ​ ➝ The Family ​ ➝ Care Experienced Video on Vimeo ​ ➝ Changing The Narrative ​ ➝ National Care Leavers' Week 2020 | A Portrait Of Care ​ ➝ A Chance in the World ​ ➝ The Unforgivable ​ ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows My Mum Tracy Beaker ​ 2021 My Mum Tracy Beaker is a British children's television miniseries that premiered on CBBC and BBC iPlayer on 12 February 2021. The series follows on from the events of its predecessors, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground. My Mum Tracy Beaker saw Dani Harmer reprise her role as Tracy Beaker, and also included original cast members Lisa Coleman, Ruth Gemmell and Montanna Thompson, as well as new cast members Emma Davies and Jordan Duvigneau. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Wards of the state: An autobiographical novella Robert Adamson ➝ Letters to Gil Malik Al Nasir ➝ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou ➝ All at Sea: Memories of a Coram Boy Gorden Aspey ➝ Only: A singular memoir Caroline Baum ➝ Daffodils - Audiobook Louise Beech ➝ Hand Me Down Leigh Bonheur ➝ Your Honour Can I Tell You My Story? Brierley et al ➝ Through the Eyes of a Foster Child: My Childhood in Over 30 New Zealand Homes Daryl Brougham ➝ Childhood: A Memoir Shannon Burns ➝ The WOTS Family Cheryl Campbell ➝ Sleepers (memoir) Lorenzo Carcaterra ➝ Jack Charles: A Born-again Blakfella Jack Charles ➝ Searching for Charmian Suzanne Chick ➝ Windswept and Interesting. My Autobiography Billy Connolly ➝ Mommie Dearest (autobiography) Christina Crawford ➝ Li Cunxin Li Cunxin ➝ Foster Care and Me Judith Denton ➝ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass ➝ Lost in the System Charlotte Dworkin Lopez et al. ➝ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano ( Olaudah Equiano ➝ Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage: Childhood in Goldenbridge Orphanage Bernadette Fahy ➝ Who Cares?: Memories of a Childhood in Barnardo's Fred Fever ➝ Brutal-Surviving Westbrook Boys Home Al 'Crow' Jorgensen Fletcher et al. ➝ The Golly in the Cupboard Phil Frampton ➝ The Foundling (2018) Paul Joseph Fronczak ➝ 9 Clouds Gets to University Amanda Gargula ➝ The Thief's Journal M Jean Genet ➝ An Orphan's Escape: Memories of a Lost Childhood Frank Golding ➝ Memoirs Mikhail Gorbachev ➝ Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up Xiaolu Guo ➝ The Convent Marie Hargreaves ➝ Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob Henderson ➝ Flo: child migrant from Liverpool Flo Hickson ➝ Part of My Story Kimberley Hobbs ➝ The Girl in the Purple Dress: My Adoption Story Jo Horsley ➝ Daughters of Nazareth Trisha Hughes ➝ Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography Eric Idle ➝ A Tribute to Daphne David Jackson ➝ Dussa and the Maiden's Prayer Walter Jacobsen ➝ This Boy. A Memoir of a Childhood Alan Johnson ➝ The Inconvenient Child: An Abandoned Australian Child Struggles to Survive and Find her American Father Sharyn Lewis Killens et al. ➝ Out of Darkness. Growing up with the Christian Brothers Ivor A Knight ➝ The Last Foundling: A little boy left behind, The mother who wanted him back Tom H. Mackenzie ➝ Keeping in step George V Martin ➝ Always in the convent shadow Margaret Matley ➝ Let Me Tell You. Mending a Broken Childhood Anthony McCabe ➝ At a cost Roy McFadyen ➝ Red Tape Rape. The Story of Ki Meekins Ki Meekins ➝ Up from the Lowest Rung Deidre Michell ➝ Two Mothers Deidre Michell ➝ The True “Drama of the Gifted Child”: The Phantom Alice Miller — The Real Person Martin Miller ➝ Our Voice of Fire Brandi Morin ➝ The Truth about My Fathers Gaby Naher ➝ Bridge Across My Sorrows Christina Noble ➝ Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup ➝ Left unsaid: a triumph of sibling love over parental neglect & institutional care Margo O'Byrne ➝ A Place called Hope Tom O'Neill ➝ Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama ➝ That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020 Derek Owusu ➝ Little One Peter Papathanasiou ➝ Doug's story: the struggle for a fair go Doug Cincotta Pentland et al. ➝ Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Doris Garimara Pilkington ➝ While the Locust Slept Peter Razor ➝ The Life of Riley Christina Riley ➝ Our Fathers Cleared the Bush: Remembering Eyre Peninsula Jill Roe ➝ Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France Renee Roth-Hano ➝ The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell ➝ How the Light Gets In: Writing as Spiritual Practice Pat Schneider ➝ A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler ➝ Back on the block: Bill Simon's story Bill Montgomerie Simon et al. ➝ A pavane for another time Bernard Smith ➝ To Learn is to Live: Education Nourishes Self-Worth Gregory P Smith ➝ Tortured Victoria ➝ Desperate Hearts Katherine Summers ➝ No Ordinary Liz: An extraodinary story of life and family Elizabeth Sutherland ➝ Beyond the Orphanage Years Ryszard Szablicki ➝ A Proud & Strong Survivor Priscilla Taylor ➝ From the Ashes Jesse Thistle ➝ Fear of the Collar Patrick Touher ➝ If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker, M.B.E. Margaret Tucker ➝ Nobody's Child: The True Story or Growing up in a Yorkshire Children's Home G J Urquhart ➝ My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions Alfred Russel Wallace ➝ Stumbling Forwards - Understand Backwards Rob Watts ➝ The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: A Memoir Corey White ➝ Navigating My Way to a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the 1960s: A Care Leaver's Journey Karen Laura-Lee Wilson ➝ Offla's Children: A Family Memoir Helena Ban Wilson et al. ➝ Just A Child Sammy Woodhouse ➝ Inside Out: An Autobiography Adamson Robert ➝ Thrown Away Child Louise Allen ➝ Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union Dame Elizabeth N Anionwu ➝ Why Richard Kingsmill is is My God Davida Bache ➝ In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography Nina Bawden ➝ Aboriginal women by degrees : their stories of the journey towards academic achievement Mary Ann Bin-Sallik ➝ Sunday's Child? - a Memoir Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ Racial Folly Gordon Briscoe ➝ The Child She Bare Hannah Brown ➝ The Elephant to Hollywood Michael Caine ➝ One of the Family: Why A Dog Called Maxwell Changed My Life Nicky Campbell ➝ The Sixteenth Round Rubin Carter ➝ A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages Kristen Chenoweth ➝ The girl in the locker: the true story of twins abandoned by their mother to a life of abuse, and their survival and fight for freedom Sonia St Claire ➝ Mini & Me Michael Cooper ➝ Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories Rie Croll ➝ Hackney Child Hope Daniels ➝ Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina Michaela Deprince ➝ The God Squad Paddy Doyle ➝ Life After Care: From Lost Cause to MBE Mark Edwards ➝ Born To Survive: You Can't Break A Broken heart Kylie-Anne Evans ➝ The Scent of my Mother's Kiss Melene Fawdry ➝ Predators' Paradise. A Journey of Survival and Resilience Glen Fisher ➝ Borrowed Findery Paula Fox ➝ The Love that Remains Susan Francis ➝ A Search For Belonging: A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement Michael (Mike) Fuller ➝ Nine Clouds Amanda Gargula ➝ Deliver Me From Evil Alloma Gilbert ➝ That's Not My Child Frank Golding ➝ Autobiography of Maxim Gorky: My Childhood, in the World, My Universities Maxim Gorky ➝ Extraordinary Journey: The Lifelong Path of the Transracial Adoptee Mark Hagland ➝ Call Me Auntie: My Childhood in Care and My Search for My Mother Anne Harrison ➝ Matthew Henson Matthew Henson ➝ The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia David Hill ➝ Walk On: The Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia Brenda Hodge ➝ Lowborn Kerry Hudson ➝ A Chip Off What Block? Laurie Humphreys ➝ I set off on an unchartered course...and found myself drifting David Jackson ➝ I was just trying to matter David Jackson ➝ Plot 29: A Love Affair With Land Allan Jenkins ➝ Care to University Reeny Jurcyszyn ➝ Thursday's Child Eartha Kitt ➝ Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis Daniel Lavelle ➝ Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela ➝ Don't Ever Cry Sue Martin ➝ Among the Porcupines Carol Matthau ➝ Borderline: A Memoir Marie Stella McClure ➝ Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir Paula Mclain ➝ Seven Storey Mountain Thomas Merton ➝ God was always there Deidre Michell ➝ Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University Deidre Michell et al. ➝ Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution Rachel Moran ➝ Sunday's Child? A Memoir by Leslie Baruch Brent Jocelyn Morris Morris et al. ➝ Half and Half: The Memoirs of a Charity Brat 1908-1989 Charles Nalden (autobiography) ➝ The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream Katharine Norbury ➝ Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story Kathy O'Beirne ➝ Rememberings Sinead O'Connor ➝ The Other Side of Absence Betty O'Neil ➝ The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama ➝ Someone to Love Us Terence O’Neill ➝ Feathers of the Snow Angel: Memories of a Child in Exile Lionel Pearce ➝ A Lonely Little Girl Goes to University Pam Petrilli ➝ The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince Mary Prince ➝ A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood?Tenth Anniversary Edition Richard Rhodes ➝ Finding Fish: A Memoir Antwone Q Rivas Fisher et al. ➝ The Continuing Education of the Artist as a Mature Woman Rachael Romero ➝ The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau ➝ Orphanage Boy Szablicki Ryszard ➝ Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole ➝ The Long Way Home Kate Shayler ➝ My Name Is Why Lemn Sissay ➝ The Boy Adeodatus Bernard Smith ➝ Better Off in a Home Bill Smith ➝ The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley Henry Morton Stanley Stanley et al. ➝ Barbara Sumner Barbara Sumner ➝ A Tertiary Moment Ryszard Szablicki ➝ Beyond the Orphanage. A journey of hope and aspirations Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe ➝ Living the Happiest Years of Her Life Priscilla Taylor ➝ Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion Robert Tickner ➝ Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography Tricky ➝ Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography Jim Tully ➝ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis J D Vance ➝ The anti cool girl Rosie Waterland ➝ Bath Times & Nursery Rhymes Pam Weaver ➝ Damaged: Heartbreaking Stories of the Kids Trapped in Britain's Broken Care System Chris Wild ➝ Gaining a Sense of Self Karen Laura-Lee Wilson ➝ Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson ➝ Soar Simon Wooley ➝ Ushant: an autobiographical narrative Conrad Aiken ➝ A Place to Call Home David Ambroz ➝ Fifty-One Moves. Ben Ashcroft ➝ Foster Kid Paul Barber ➝ Girl with dove: a life built by books Sally Bayley ➝ Not Forgotten Samilya Bjelic ➝ Lion: A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley ➝ Choice or Constraint in Everyday Life Judith Anne Brooker ➝ Little Big Man Stanley J. Browne ➝ John Callahan John Callahan ➝ Steering the Mothership (2014) 'Like a Duck to Water'. Rosie Canning ➝ My Autobiography Charles Chaplin ➝ The Brightness of Stars: Stories of Adults Who Came Through the Care System Lisa Cherry ➝ Eric Clapton: The Autobiography Eric Clapton ➝ The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story Justine Cowan ➝ Forgotten Les Cummings ➝ I've been bloody lucky: the story of an orphan named Jimmy Butt Felicity Dargan ➝ In Gratitude Jenny Diski ➝ Evelyn: A True Story Evelyn Doyle ➝ Love Child Sue Elliot ➝ A Fortunate Life - Fremantle Press A B Facey ➝ Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots Deborah Feldman ➝ Along the Way Maureen Flanagan ➝ News From the World Paula Fox ➝ Shadow child: a memoir of the stolen generation Rosalie Fraser ➝ Cloudy Wishes Amanda Gargula ➝ A Boy Called Graham Graham Gaskin with James MacVeigh ➝ Going to the Shop Frank Golding ➝ Good and Bad Cards Frank Golding ➝ The Secret of the Daisy Carol Grace ➝ The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley et al. ➝ You Don't Look Adopted Anne Heffron ➝ The Looked After Kid Paolo Hewitt ➝ The King Of The Barbareens Janet Hitchman ➝ Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy Ishbel Holmes ➝ I'll Love You If... Matthew Huggins ➝ The Sons with Two Moms Tony Hynes ➝ Saying Goodbye to Violet David Jackson ➝ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs ➝ Borderline Sandie Jessamine ➝ Red Dust Road Jackie Kay ➝ Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of An Accidental Family Lynn Knight ➝ Family Secrets: A Writer's Search for His Parents and His Past David Leitch ➝ Conversations with Myself Nelson Mandela ➝ No Way Home: The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive Sue Martin ➝ An Australian Son Gordon Matthews ➝ Pulling the Chariot of the Sun Shane McCrae ➝ It Is No Secret Donna Meehan ➝ Putting Down Roots Deidre Michell ➝ Ways of the Wicked Witch Deidre Michell ➝ Recipes for Survival: Stories of hope and healing by survivors of the state 'care' system in Australia Deidre Michell et al. ➝ My Place Sally Morgan ➝ Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Liz Murray ➝ Acceptance: A Memoir Emi Nietfeld ➝ Banana Boy Frank Norman ➝ It's about Healing: Our Story Margot O'Byrne ➝ Childhood Interrupted Kathleen O'Malley ➝ Whispering Hope Steven O'Riordan ➝ I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond Michael Oher ➝ University Lectures and Lesson in Life Stacey Page ➝ A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home Steve Pemberton ➝ Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir Catherine de Saint Phalle ➝ The Rale Rasic Story Rale Rasic ➝ Three Little Words Ashley Rhodes-Courter ➝ Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music Archie Roach ➝ Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt ➝ The Women Who Raised Me Victoria Rowell ➝ Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver Sacks ➝ Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours Sarah Sentilles ➝ Burnished: Burnside Life Stories: A collection of life accounts from residents of Burnside Children's Homes, Sydney Kate Shayler ➝ Palimpsest Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoeblom ➝ Out of the Forest Gregory Smith ➝ Our Betty Liz Smith ➝ Fight The Fear James Summers ➝ The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir John Sutherland ➝ A personal journey towards healing and redress Ryszard Szablicki ➝ God, the Devil and Me Alf Taylor ➝ Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin: A Stolen Generation Story by Mary Terszak Mary Terszak ➝ Goodbye, Mummy Darling Susan Tickner ➝ An Autobiography Anthony Trollope ➝ Tina Turner: My Love Story Tina Turner ➝ Charlie, the ratbag orphan: an orphan survivor in Australia Alan Walker Walker et al. ➝ Tell No One Brendan Watkins ➝ Survivor: The Shocking and Inspiring Story of a True Champion Fatima Whitbread ➝ Dingo! my life on the run Max Williams ➝ Gaining a Sense of Self Karen Laura-Lee Wilson ➝ My Turn: An Autobiography Norman ➝ Black Boy Richard Wright Wright et al. ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos James and the Giant Peach ​ 1996 James and the Giant Peach is a movie starring Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, and Pete Postlethwaite. An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey... External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Half A World Away Mike Gayle 2020 Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living in a tough London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back. When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever. 'Kerry is not depicted as less able than Noah, despite growing up in care. So often cared for characters are a shorthand for an emotional mess and actually in this novel that was reversed.' External Website

Authors A A Mother Finds Her Lost Child After a 40-year search ➝ An Angel for May ➝ A child of the state ➝ Trade Secrets 1: Maria Amidu on making a living and working internationally ➝ August Rush ➝ Auntie Mame ➝ A Thousand and One ➝ A Walz Through the Hills (Film) ➝ Angels & Demons ➝ A Little Princess (Film) ➝ A Cry from the Streets ➝ A Chance in the World ➝ Atomised ➝ America ➝ A.I. Artificial Intelligence ➝ Anne of Green Gables (tv film) ➝ A Family Affair ➝ Back to Top

Artists Frank Auerbach ​ ​ Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) was only 7 years of age when he was sent from Germany to safety in England in 1939. His parents were killed in Auschwitz in 1942. In England Frank became a student at the Bunce Court School in Kent and then moved to London in 1947. He took art classes at the Borough Polytechnic, St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art. From 1955, Auerbach began teaching in secondary schools and art schools. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956 at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London. London's Tate Britain organised a major retrospective of Auerbach's work during 2015 and 2016. External Website

Films/Videos Cousins ​ 2021 The story of Aboriginal Australian children stolen from their parents - the Stolen Generation(s) - is well known. Less well known (outside of New Zealand) is that Maori children were stolen from their families too - the theme of this 2021 film, Cousins. The film is an adaptation from the 1992 novel of the same name by Patricia Grace, a foremost NZ literary figure. It tells the story of 3 cousins - 1 of whom was taken and raised in an orphanage and in foster care - who travel different paths as adults. Cousins was produced by an all female Maori team and features 9 Maori female actors playing the 3 cousins across 3 stages of their lives. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Innocent Blood P.D. James 2011 If you are a PD James fan, I should say up front that Innocent Blood is very different from the Adam Dalgliesh detective series. It is a psychological thriller, a slow-building mystery which starts with little steps then, as the odd details start to make sense, the tension builds. It is the story of a young woman who knows she is adopted, who exercises her right to know the names of her birth parents, and finds something she never in a million years expected. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Goodwood Holly Throsby ➝ The Thief of Time John Boyne ➝ The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane ➝ The Fish Lloyd Jones ➝ The Inheritance Louisa May Alcott ➝ Mansfield Park Jane Austen ➝ Quirke (series) John Banville ➝ Rocks in the Belly Jon Bauer ➝ The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Louis Bayard ➝ Ghost River Tony Birch ➝ Common People Tony Birch ➝ The Foster Child: Jenny Blackhurst ➝ The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne (3) ➝ Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte ➝ The Chocolate Maker's Wife Karen Brooks ➝ Prudence (Custard Protocol, 1 Gail Carriger ➝ Mrs McGinty's dead Agatha Christie ➝ Sword Catcher Cassandra Clare ➝ Resurrection Walk Michael Connelly ➝ The Friend in Need Elizabeth Coxhead ➝ Boy Swallows Universe (Novel) Trent Dalton ➝ The Ghost of Lily Painter Caitlin Davies ➝ Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade Patrick Dennis ➝ The Sunken Road Garry Disher ➝ Solace of the Road Siobhan Dowd ➝ The Round House Louise Erdrich ➝ Belgravia (novel) Julian Fellowes ➝ The Woman in the Window A J Finn ➝ The Exit Helen Fitzgerald ➝ The Donor Helen Fitzgerald ➝ Casino Royale Ian Fleming ➝ Shadow Baby Margaret Forster ➝ I Couldn't Love You More Esther Freud ➝ Secrets of the Sea House Elisabeth Gifford ➝ A Room Made of Leaves Kate Grenville ➝ Florence and Giles John Harding ➝ The Secret of Lost Things Sheridan Hay ➝ Someone Else's Skin Sarah Hilary ➝ Where The Dead Sit Talking Brandon Hobson ➝ Kirkland Revels Victoria Holt ➝ No One Was Watching Annie Horner ➝ Les Misérables (novel) Victor Costa Hugo et al. ➝ Bea's Witch Daniel Ingram-Brown ➝ Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro ➝ The Orphan's Tale Pam Jenoff ➝ Mister Pip Lloyd Jones ➝ Paper Nautilus Nicholas ➝ Foster (novella) Claire Keegan ➝ The Feast Margaret Kennedy ➝ Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver ➝ The Girl in the Spider's Web (novel) David Lagercrantz ➝ Choose Me Kay Langdale ➝ The Memoirs of a Survivor Doris Lessing ➝ Small Island Andrea Levy ➝ Daphis and Chloe ​ ➝ Safe With Me Grace Lowrie ➝ The Everlasting Sunday Robert Lukins ➝ Auē Becky Manawatu ➝ Amy's Children Olga Masters ➝ 1989 Val McDermid ➝ As Swallows Fly LP McMahan ➝ Long Bright River Liz Moore ➝ The Orphans Annemarie Neary ➝ The December Boys Michael Noonan ➝ Political Suicide Michael Palmer ➝ Poor Man's Orange Ruth Park ➝ There Was Still Love Favel Parrett ➝ Run Ann Patchett ➝ In The Clearing J.P. Pomare ➝ The Other Wife Michael Robotham 2018 ➝ The Suspect Michael Robotham (2018) ➝ Island Jane Rogers ➝ Shirley (novel by Ronnie Scott) Ronnie Scott ➝ A Whole Life Robert Seethaler ➝ All the Murmuring Bones Angela Slatter ➝ Foundlings Anna Spargo-Ryan ➝ The Aunt's House Elizabeth Stead ➝ The Goldfinch Donna Tartt ➝ Tell Morning This Kylie Tennant ➝ The Franchise Affair (novel) Josephine Tey ➝ Clarke Holly Throsby ➝ That girl Ethel Ewan Turner et al. ➝ The Extraordinary Adventures of Foundling Mick Jules Verne ➝ Kemosha of the Caribbean Alex Wheatle MBE ➝ The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead ➝ The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams ➝ Orphan Rock Dominque Wilson ➝ Before We Were Yours Lisa ➝ The Life She Was Given Ellen Marie Wiseman (4) ➝ Trapped Amy Witting ➝ The Book Thief (novel) Markus Zusak ➝ No One John Hughes ➝ The Way It Is Now Garry Disher ➝ The Turn of the Screw Henry James ➝ Ordeal by Innocence (Novel) Agatha Christie ➝ Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi ➝ Sins of the Father Sharon Bairden ➝ Agony of desertion (out of print) Melissa Barron ➝ The Black Tower Louis Bayard (2) ➝ The Butterfly Lampshade Aimee Bender ➝ The Promise Tony Birch ➝ Blood Tony Birch ➝ A Second Life Dermot Bolger ➝ Grace and Mary Melvyn Bragg ➝ Wuthering Heights Emily Nestor Brontë et al. ➝ Lost for words Stephanie Butland ➝ Greenwood Michael Christie ➝ They Do it with Mirrors (novel) Agatha Christie ➝ Burial of Ghosts Ann Cleeves ➝ Leatherstocking Tales James Fenimore Cooper ➝ Born in a Burial Gown M.W. Craven ➝ All Our Shimmering Skies Trent Dalton ➝ Family likeness Caitlin Davies ➝ The Foundling Boy Michel Deon ➝ Bitter Wash Road Garry Disher ➝ Bodies of Light Jennifer Down ➝ Crooked Heart Lissa Evans ➝ Calico Bush Rachel Field ➝ All the Good Things Clare Fisher ➝ The Devil's Staircase Helen Fitzgerald ➝ Worst Case Scenario Helen Fitzgerald ➝ A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes ➝ How to Measure a Cow Margaret Forster ➝ Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus ➝ Starlings Miranda Gold ➝ The Foundling (2020) Stacey Halls ➝ A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness ➝ Tales of the Otori Lian Hearn ➝ Quieter Than Killing Sarah Hilary ➝ The Shadow of the Lynx Victoria Holt ➝ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman ➝ Cazalet Chronicle Collection Elizabeth Jane Howard ➝ The Bone People Keri Hulme ➝ The Cider House Rules (Novel) John Irving ➝ Innocent Blood P.D. James ➝ The Late Train to Gipsy Hill Alan Johnson ➝ One Another (Novel) Gail Jones ➝ The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignacius Sancho Paterson Joseph ➝ Small Things Like These Claire Keegan ➝ Burial Rites Hannah Kent ➝ Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline ➝ The Fall of Man in Wilmslow David Lagercrantz ➝ Crow Lake Mary Lawson ➝ Caging Skies Christine Leunens ➝ Patience Toby Litt ➝ The Twins Tessa de Loo ➝ Too Much Lip Melissa Lucashenko ➝ Lamb Bernard MacLaverty ➝ Died in the Wool Ngaio Marsh ➝ Jamaica Inn Daphne Du Maurier et al. ➝ Insidious Intent Val McDermid ➝ How the Dead Speak Val Mcdermid ➝ The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1) James and Lance Morcan ➝ The Kingdom Jo Nesbo ➝ Evidence of V Sheila O'Connor ➝ Missus Ruth Park ➝ Sixkill Robert B Parker ➝ Doctor Zhivago Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ➝ The Lost Child Caryl Phillips ➝ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs ➝ When She Was Good Michael Robotham (2020) ➝ Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham (2019) ➝ Shadow in the Empire of Light Jane Routley ➝ The Emigrants W G Sebald (2) ➝ Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus Mary Shelley ➝ Will Trent Series (books) Karin Slaughter ➝ Clara Morrison Catherine Helen Spence ➝ After Anne Logan Steiner ➝ Truth Peter Temple ➝ The joyful condemned Kylie Tennant ➝ The Fraud Zadie Smith ➝ The Flying Troutmans Miriam Toews ➝ Stepping Up Sarah Turner ➝ My Name Is Leon Kit de Waal ➝ Every Good Deed and Other Stories Dorothy Whipple ➝ The Underground Railroad (novel) Colson Whitehead ➝ Extinctions Josephine Wilson ➝ The Yield Tara June Winch ➝ What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman (2) ➝ The Orphan Collector Ellen Marie Wiseman ➝ The Adoption Zidou (Author), Arno Monin (Artist) ➝ In the Woods Tana French ➝ Secrets of Happiness Joan Silber ➝ The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave ➝ The Likeness Tana French ➝ Robert B. Parker's Lullaby Ace Atkins ➝ Different Genes Claire Baldry ➝ A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry ➝ Mr Timothy Louis Bayard (3) ➝ The Dictator's Wife Freya Berry ➝ The White Girl Tony Birch ➝ Christine Falls Benjamin Black ➝ This House is Haunted John Boyne (2) ➝ Death of an Avid Reader Frances Brody ➝ The Orphan of Salt Winds Elizabeth Brooks ➝ Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler ➝ Elephants Can Remember Agatha Christie ➝ Three Blind Mice Agatha Christie ➝ The Runaway Martina Cole ➝ All the Sinners Bleed S.A. Cosby ➝ Wild Pork and Watercress Barry Crump ➝ Ignoring Gravity Sandra Danby ➝ Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe ➝ The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh ➝ Akin Emma Donoghue ➝ Winter Sonata Dorothy Edwards ➝ Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo ➝ Year of the Orphan Daniel Findlay ➝ White Oleander Janet Fitch ➝ My Last Confession Helen Fitzgerald ➝ Wanting Richard Flanagan ➝ The Battle For Christabel Margaret Forster ➝ Because of You Dawn French ➝ Half A World Away Mike Gayle ➝ Cousins Patricia Grace ➝ The Doll Funeral Kate Hamer ➝ Into the Water Paula Hawkins ➝ Fragile Sarah Hilary ➝ Two O'Clock Boy Mark Hill ➝ The Black Opal Victoria Holt ➝ The Subjects Sarah Hopkins ➝ The Alternatives Caoilinn Hughes ➝ Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston ➝ When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro ➝ Codename Villanelle Luke Jennings ➝ The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson ➝ Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones ➝ Eyes Like Mine Sheena ➝ The Dickens Boy Thomas Keneally ➝ Mr Potter Jamaica Kincaid ➝ The House in the Cerulean Sea TJ Klune ➝ The Children's Home Charles Lambert ➝ The Foundling (2022) Ann Leary ➝ The Long Song Andrea Levy ➝ The Flight of Gemma Hardy Margot Livesey ➝ Murder in the Mill-Race: A Devon Mystery E.C.R. Lorac ➝ Ginny Moon Benjamin Ludwig ➝ Goodnight Mister Tom (novel) Michelle Magorian ➝ Song of the Sea Maid Rebecca Mascull ➝ The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe ➝ That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern ➝ Fugitive Pieces (Novel) Anne Michaels ➝ The Chaperone Laura Moriarty ➝ Macbeth Jo Nesbo ➝ Where the Crawdads Sing (novel) Delia Owens ➝ The Harp in the South Ruth Park ➝ When Hoopoes Go To Heaven Gaile Parkin ➝ The Dutch House Ann Patchett ➝ A Girl Returned Donatella Di Pietrantonio ➝ The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Novel) Holly Ringland ➝ Lying Beside You Michael Robotham (2022) ➝ Separate Tracks Jane Rogers ➝ Son of Sin Omar Sakr ➝ Austerlitz W G Sebald ➝ Honeybee Craig Silvey ➝ The Ash Museum Rebecca Smith ➝ The Switherby Pilgrims Eleanor Spence ➝ Mothering Sunday (book) Graham Swift ➝ The Broken Shore Peter Temple ➝ The Daughter of Time Josephine Tey (2) ➝ Tattycoram Audrey Thomas ➝ Lily: A Tale of Revenge Rose Tremain ➝ The Strangers Katherena Vermette ➝ The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner ➝ The Nowhere Child Christian White ➝ The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde ➝ The Yellow Papers Dominque Wilson ➝ Swallow the Air Tara June Winch ➝ The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Ellen Marie Wiseman (5) ➝ Coal River Ellen Marie Wiseman (3) ➝ Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak ➝ Back to Top

Actors Lennie James (actor) ​ ​ Lennie Michael James (born 11 October 1965) is a British actor, screenwriter, and playwright. James was born in Nottingham, the son of Afro-Trinidadian parents. He lived in South London and attended school at Ernest Bevin College. James' mother, Phyllis Mary James, died when he was 10, after which he and his brother, Kester, chose to live in a children's home instead of being sent to the United States to reside with a relative. James remained in foster care for eight years. He is best known for playing Tony Gates in Line of Duty, Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, and has appeared in many films including Snatch (2000) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). Among James' more notable roles in television is Glen Boyle in the medical drama Critical on Sky 1. On American television, he portrayed the mysterious Robert Hawkins in the CBS series Jericho and Detective Joe Geddes in the AMC television series Low Winter Sun. External Website