Helen Pitt

Surviving the awful bits of breast cancer treatment without completely losing your sense of humour...Hugely positive personal view of the ups and downs of a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment - irrationally funny revelation of the strength of character needed to both inform and reassure anybody else facing the same unwanted journey

Life in late Victorian and Edwardian England on a Birmingham farm – this is the story of the family who inhabited Pinfold Farm in Yardley, a now long-vanished agricultural holding except for the farmhouse itself, a Grade Two Listed Building now called Pinfold House.

The extraordinary story of the 20th century's most recognisable building, with new insights into the people involved and the controversy that surrounded its construction.Winner of the 2018 Walkley Book AwardThe best-loved building in Australia nearly didn't get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly some for the b

A tragic true-life love story. A teenage relationship ends badly but 33 years later he suddenly turns up in her life again because he's 'On the run'... What would you do?

Part travel romance, part emotional release, 'The Erstwhile Buddhist' documents a period living in a city unlike any other, even in Australia. Darwin is partly magical and partly hellish due to its heat and its fauna and flora which place unusual strains on relationships and on just living, tensions which Helen Pitt draws on so well in describing her own year in Darwin.

Terrorised by a toxic narcissistic alcoholic...but she keeps going back for more.

Life in late Victorian and Edwardian England on a Birmingham farm – this is the story of the family who inhabited Pinfold Farm in Yardley, a now long-vanished agricultural holding except for the farmhouse itself, a Grade Two Listed Building now called Pinfold House. Large Print edition.

Old ladies can be sad and terrifying, funny and scathing, pathetic and inspirational, racist and generous or all of these at different times. Helen Pitt here paints the characters of all the old ladies she's collected through the years with a rogueishly twinkling eye for the humour life doles out in our direction.

A tragic true-life love story. A teenage relationship ends badly but 33 years later he suddenly turns up in her life again because he's 'On the run'...What would you do?

Changing lives in the second city - a lifetime's experience working with the poor, the abused, the raped, and the barely coping with life in Birmingham