Health & Family

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has tended thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love, meaning and grace....

Discover how to feel your best and balance your hormones, naturally. Healthy Hormones is about making small and realistic changes to help your body function at its optimum level. Naturopath...

Depression is one of the most common mental health problems and is estimated to affect around 15% of people at some point during their life. For many people depression is...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Feel more beautiful, healthy, and energized than you have in years! Now, a revolutionary new way of helping you realize the true beauty that is...

At home, Alison and her parents sleepwalk in shifts. Alison hoards food for her lost brother, hides in the backyard fort they built together, and waits for him to return....

Our health care system is sick. We live in an era of factory style medicine, spiralling costs, complex and chronic conditions, and doctors at the heart of it under pressure...

A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we...

Ever since Winston Churchill popularised the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life, it has become the shorthand for the disease...

A profoundly moving portrait of health, hope and humanity in the NHS, told with vivid compassion through one doctor's 34 most memorable cases We ask so much of our doctors....

Compiled from her own experiences, and conversations with fellow members of the "Cancer Club", Deborah Hutton book is an anthology of supremely practical examples of ways in which friends and...

With efficiency and a touch of humor, this valuable guidebook offers information on the difficult subject of planning for one's own death or organizing funerals for loved ones. Topics ranging...

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she...

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood. 'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your...

As seen on Australian Story Christopher was seventeen and had everything to live for. He was smart, charismatic, loving, and deeply loved, and a champion rugby player. Yet he was...

Make room for what matters- minimalism strategies for life. Discover how to apply the minimalist mindset to every aspect of your life by changing the way you think about your...

'I think the world should read it' LISA TADDEO, AUTHOR OF THREE WOMEN A Guardian Book of the Year After the unexpected death of her partner, Carolina Setterwall found herself...

In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of...

In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard -topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a...

On occasion nearly everyone experiences short-term back pain from sore or strained muscles. But for many who come to treat their back gingerly because they fear further "injury," a cycle...

All In My Head is a memoir by a woman who in her early fifties received a life-shattering diagnosis. It is about her determined search for effective treatment, the birth...

Some tragedies become part of our national history. On August 4, 2002 Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman disappeared. For the next thirteen days their families, the police, and the local...

A warm, moving and practical guide to grief from one of the UK's leading bereavement counsellors Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood....

A moving work of startling bravery and candour of a family dislocated and united by tragedy, and a beautiful and moving tribute to a son. In July 2012 Thomas Harding's...

What if 5-2 wasn't just about weight loss? Now in paperback, 5-2 YOUR LIFE shows how the revolutionary 5-2 approach can transform your health, your wealth and your happiness -...

The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced breast cancer in your twenties?...

*THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER* What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it...

The gig's up. 70 years since 'cabbage soup', obesity has tripled, 97% of all dieters gain it all back - and more, and diets are 5 times more likely to...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation...

The new taboo-busting medical guide from the #1 bestselling author and social media phenomenon, Dr Karan Rajan The new book from Dr Karan Rajan, the internet's favourite general surgeon and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A must-read owner's manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this "delightful, anecdote-propelled read" (...

Diabetes is all about sugar. And for the millions of people worldwide who live with one of the two forms of the disease, diabetes also is all about understanding causes,...

A three-step program that puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives. A must read for all individuals with migraine! Ronald J. Tusa, M.D., PH.D., Professor of Neurology and...

Shaun O'Gorman knows what it's like to suffer from PTSD, depression and to battle with suicide. He served a 13-year career as a Police Officer including 9 years as a...

The unfortunate popular perception is that when someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia, they are immediately lost to themselves, to those who love them and to those they love....

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A literary tour de force that chronicles a prize-winning author's descent into an almost suicidal depression. "Compelling ... Harrowing ... a vivid portrait of a debilitating...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wayne Biddle has written a thorough guide to the top one hundred (in terms of prevalence, or power, or even literary interest) of the innumerable potentially unfriendly...

Using examples of famous (Vincent Van Gogh, Fyodor Dostoyevksy) and not so famous artists and creative people who have struggled with depression, Dr Maisel shows what lessons can be learned...

This book challenges the widely held belief that most people diagnosed with schizophrenia will require long term neuroleptic treatment.

Mass market edition of the much-loved broadcaster's raw and emotional story of the devastating impact of Covid-19 on her family - and how she finds strength in hope, even at...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in cultural anthropology and developmental psychology, Childhood in Contemporary Cultures presents...

'The final step to equality has to be turning the menopause into a topic we can happily discuss, and even celebrate. In these pages, Christa D'Souza puts us firmly on...

Welcome to the exhilarating journey of your 40s-a decade brimming with possibilities, transformations, and newfound wisdom. Whether you are juggling the demands of a high-powered career, raising a family, or...

10-year-old Jase is spending the summer holidays at the Castle Rock Caravan Park with his auntie and grandma, who has dementia. Expecting to be totally bored, he meets three other...

By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...

Studs Terkel explores the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In Will the...

Even the most minor of injuries can sideline a runner from being active for an extended period of time; some are even determined to run through the pain and risk...