These charming tales from 1960s London provide a unique insight into the everyday life of working class families at a time when much of the country was obsessed with pop culture and the new social freedoms that came hand in hand with the advent of the contraceptive pill. The stories, which are based on real events which happened during Julie Norton's childhood, were written by her mother, Mira Harmer, between 1965 and 1970, and appeared in the Daily Worker/Morning Star, where she worked as a feature writer. Funny, perceptive and at times poignant, this is a first hand account of the...

Life was hard for Mira, who spent her childhood as a one of ten siblings living in poverty in 1920s Marylebone, London. And hard too for her daughter, Julie, when Mira eventually succumbed to dementia and was confined to a nursing home. Seventy years separate these two accounts, but the decades disappear as mother and daughter find themselves travelling back in time together...

"Very comprehensive, well-researched and informative" - Jan Feuerstein, Save The Chimps

Remarkable mini-biographies of some high profile chimps, including space travellers, Ham and Enos; Michael Jackson's chimp-child, Bubbles; Washoe and Nim, who learned sign language; Tarzan's side-kick Cheetah; London Zoo tea-party chimps; and 'actor' chimps in TV adverts. All were manipulated by humans to be substitutes for us, entertain us or act as celebrity accessories. This book salutes them and the many other unnamed and forgotten chimps who have done so much for humankind.