Not every memoir is written for a publisher. Not every life that deserves recording belongs to a CEO or a cabinet minister. Some of the most important stories are the ones a family needs to preserve, a parent wants to leave behind, or a person with an extraordinary life simply knows should exist, whether or not the world ever reads it.
This practice works with private individuals and families, not only with institutions and executives. If you have a story worth telling and want someone you can trust to help you tell it, this is the right place.
A career in medicine, law, the military, diplomacy, or business that spanned decades and continents. Decisions made under pressure. Relationships that shaped careers. A perspective on a world that is changing faster than memory can keep pace with. This is the work that makes that record permanent.
The generation that built the family business, survived partition or migration, raised children across three countries, or simply lived a life of quiet consequence that no one has ever written down. A commissioned family memoir is among the most lasting things a family can do for itself.
A journey that few others have taken. An experience that changed everything. A perspective that deserves to exist on paper, regardless of whether a commercial publisher will ever buy it. Private publication, self-publication, or a manuscript held for family, all are equally valid destinations for this work.
You have the story. You know it should be a book. What you need is someone to help you find its structure, preserve your voice throughout, and produce a manuscript that reads as though it was written by a natural storyteller. Because in every meaningful sense, it was, with professional editorial architecture behind it.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. Unhurried, confidential, without obligation. The purpose of that first conversation is simple: to understand what the story is, what it needs to achieve, and whether this practice is the right home for it.
If the fit is right, the process that follows is the same regardless of whether the client is a sovereign official or a retired schoolteacher. Extended listening sessions. A structural architecture agreed before a word is written. A manuscript produced in the client's own voice. Revisions until the client can read every page and recognise it, fully and unreservedly, as their own.
The finished manuscript belongs entirely to the client. It may be privately circulated, self-published, submitted to a literary agent, or simply held, for family, for the future, or for no one but the person whose story it contains.
Private clients receive exactly the same confidentiality protections as institutional ones. A formal NDA is executed before any substantive discussion begins. No name, no story, no detail of any engagement is disclosed without explicit written consent. Many private memoir clients prefer not to appear in the practice's public work at all. That preference is always respected.
Full-length memoir, a complete life narrative, structured as a book, written in the client's voice. Typically 60,000 to 100,000 words.
Family history, a multi-generational narrative drawing on interviews, letters, photographs, and family records. As much research as writing.
Short memoir, a focused account of a specific period, career, or chapter of a life. 20,000 to 40,000 words. Often the right format for a first engagement.
Ghostwritten non-fiction, for clients who have a specific book in mind, a subject they know deeply, and a perspective the world should hear.
Life story document, a shorter, less formal record. The essential story, the essential voice, produced in a form that can be shared with family and close friends. Not a book. A document of record.
Fees are agreed after an initial consultation, once the scope and nature of the engagement is understood. There are no hourly rates and no published price lists. An indicative fee range is provided within 48 hours of the first conversation.