Danny Melville’s
Lost Stitches: The Bostitch Legacy and My Crazy Jamaican Family (Ian Randle Publishers, 2021) is now available. The press release explains, “This is Danny Melville’s story, told in a heartfelt, candid, relatable way and with no punches held. In writing this story he has been helped by long-time friend, Rachel Manley whose elegant and lyrical writing style evident in her own family memoir
Drumblair, succeeds in making
Lost Stitches a rollicking good read.”
Description: Danny Melville was content with his laid-back life in Jamaica. He spent his days playing polo with friends and other locals at his famed Chukka Cove, sipping on rum or maybe a Red Stripe, and living every day to the fullest. He knew how fortunate he was to have this life of privilege, which came from old family money: a legacy from his American great-grandfather Thomas Briggs, who over a hundred years ago perfected and mass-produced the stapling machine and made his Boston Wire Stitcher C