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Reasons to Stay Alive
What does it mean to feel truly alive?Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how...
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing
Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but the journey to recovery is a slow one. As...
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks
'An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother
Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal connections between siblings. This issue of Granta tells a...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine
BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how people persevere...
A Life Worth Living: Acting, Activism and Everything Else
'I can't recommend it highly enough' STEPHEN FRY | 'Everyone needs to hear his voice' MARK HADDONI'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down syndrome can...
These Foolish Things: A Memoir
Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then,...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us
'Jaw-dropping . . . Read then pass it on' STYLIST, Book of the Month'I was utterly floored by The Chain. It has the pace of a thriller and the weight...
Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller,
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent'Visceral and honest' Telegraph'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day'Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental...
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
A speculative memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, refracted through pop culture, queer theory, film, TV, literature, and (what feels like) stand-up comedy - like The Argonauts caught...
George: A Magpie Memoir
An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew [...]
A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...
The Real Prime Suspect: Crime. Sexism. Corruption. The Real-Life [...]
HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, bestselling author of The Dark Side of the...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brutality of life behind bars and what it's like to be locked away with...
Overcoming: The powerful, compelling, award-winning memoir
Sunday Times Memoir of the Year 2019An Post Irish Book of the Year 2019When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in April...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The perfect [...]
'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for...
Believe: An empowering and honest memoir from Leigh-Anne [...]
'I found my power when I realized it was within me, within my skin and within my soul. It just needed to be set free.' Leigh-Anne Pinnock's life changed overnight...
Taking Back My Power: An explosive, inspiring and totally honest [...]
Georgia Harrison's story as you've never heard it before. Explosive and inspiring, Georgia reveals the truth behind the headlines: the shocking truth of how she suffered revenge porn at the...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas...
Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey - A Memoir of Travels [...]
"A magical and hugely captivating journey - filled with such beauty, wonder and surprise. A simply marvellous read, hugely recommended" - Stephen Fry A real-life journey through the fantastical world...
You Don't Need a Dick to DJ
Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's...
The Anxiety Project
"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
The Ticking is the Bomb
In 2007, during the months before Flynn's daughter is born, his growing outrage and obsession with torture - exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photos - leads him to Istanbul to...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - [...]
The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon,...
Underclass: A Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and [...]
'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter relationships are, and never more so than in those...
Is There Still Sex in the City?: And Just Like That... 25 Years [...]
'Funny and honest dispatches from the world of modern dating' Vogue'Bushnell's voice is as knowing and sharp as ever' Washington Post'Bittersweet, amusing and well observed' Viv Groskop, Guardian'Fuelled by chilled...
The Patchwork Family: Toddlers, Teenagers and Everything in [...]
'Refreshing and honest ... this isn't your standard mum memoir' Psychologies MagazineHow to hold it together, even when things are falling apart. Laugh, cry and scream along the rollercoaster of...
Fire on All Sides: Insanity, insomnia and the incredible [...]
For many of us who suffer from depression or anxiety, the simple act of endurance, of having to appear 'normal', is a daunting, painful and heroic task. Getting out of...
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024
'[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann NapolitanoA deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left...
These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire [...]
'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned' Lemn Sissay'A bold, brave look at the...
When the Bough Breaks: The Pursuit of Motherhood
Ali Sanders was happily married to her university sweetheart, and they had everything they could hope for. The next step for them was to become parents - but this wasn't...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, it can...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
The Chateau - Forever Home: Escape to the Chateau this Christmas
Take a journey to Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge.Dick and Angel recount the newest and biggest challenges they faced on...
Believe: An empowering and honest memoir from Leigh-Anne [...]
'I found my power when I realized it was within me, within my skin and within my soul. It just needed to be set free.' Leigh-Anne Pinnock's life changed overnight...
Mother's Medicine: The Birth of my Intuition
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' [...]
Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing. At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: [...]
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...
Taking Back My Power: An explosive, inspiring and totally honest [...]
Georgia Harrison's story as you've never heard it before. Explosive and inspiring, Georgia reveals the shocking truth of how she suffered revenge porn at the hands of her ex -...
Searching For Schindler: The true story behind the Booker Prize [...]
The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and...