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Writing About Mental Health - Novels, poetry & memoirs about the experience of mental illness.

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 25 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Mad Woman by Bryony Gordon
    Mad Woman - by Bryony Gordon

    £20.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781035408689 | ISBN 10: 1035408686

    ‘Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer’ Elizabeth Day   ‘Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental illness... she really helps people tackle their own stuff. Her writing has helped me before and thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma Mitchell
    The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary - by Emma Mitchell

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789292909 | ISBN 10: 1789292905

    HE SUNDAY TIMES BESTESELLER  Emma Mitchell's richly illustrated and evocative diary – as seen on the BBC's Springwatch – records her nature finds over the course of a year and shows how being in the wild benefits our mental and physical wellb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
    Queenie - by Candice Carty-Williams

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781409180074 | ISBN 10: 1409180077

    Queenie Jenkins can’t cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That’s definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Stuck between a boss who doesn’t seem to see her, a family who don’t seem to listen ( ... more

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  • Cover image of book First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story about Anxiety by Sarah Wilson
    First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story about Anxiety - by Sarah Wilson

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780552175029 | ISBN 10: 0552175021

    "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read."(Mark Manson, bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck) If you have anxiety, this book is for you. If you love someone who is anxious, this book is for you.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book We
    We've Been Too Patient: An Anthology of Voices from Radical Mental Health - by L. D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781623173616 | ISBN 10: 1623173612

    25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement.  Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
    Heart Berries: A Memoir - by Terese Marie Mailhot

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526604507 | ISBN 10: 1526604507

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick   Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation in the Pac ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
    Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - by Gail Honeyman

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008172145 | ISBN 10: 0008172145

    • Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2017 • Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 • No.1 Sunday Times bestseller • Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to su ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Sad Feminist by Megan Beech
    You Sad Feminist - by Megan Beech

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911570103 | ISBN 10: 1911570102

    How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless? How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest? How do you change the world when you can't get out of bed?   In the second collection by t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Me, Myself and Them by Dan Mooney
    Me, Myself and Them - by Dan Mooney

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785079252 | ISBN 10: 1785079255

    Winner of the 2016 Luke Bitmead Bursary   Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis Murphy has learned to live a bit differently. Both his friends are used to it - the only problem is his monstrous housemates.  When his enigmatic ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant by Kyo Maclear
    Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant - by Kyo Maclear

    £12.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008209285 | ISBN 10: 0008209286

    ‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman
    Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate - by Susan Calman

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473632042 | ISBN 10: 1473632048

    "Nothing makes me happier than talking about depression. Packed with stories, humour and a bit of the serious stuff, I will literally write the book on how it feels to be told "Cheer up, Love"'"(Susan Calman) Susan Calman is a well known comedian ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
    Girl in Pieces - by Kathleen Glasgow

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780749457 | ISBN 10: 1780749457

    A heartbreaking, triumphant, funny and hopeful story of one girl's battle with self harm.   Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget it through cutti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss
    Signs for Lost Children - by Sarah Moss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089137 | ISBN 10: 1847089135

    Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
    Reasons to Stay Alive - by Matt Haig

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782116820 | ISBN 10: 1782116826

    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 he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mental Health and Me: 2015 by Various authors
    Mental Health and Me: 2015 - by Various authors

    £2.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910580097 | ISBN 10: 1910580090

    A collection of writing, including letters, journalism, short stories, diary entries, blog posts, poems, tweets and spoken word - all winners of a competition run by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium and Writing on the Wall, to celebrate World Menta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Only When I Laugh: My Autobiography by Paul Merton
    Only When I Laugh: My Autobiography - by Paul Merton

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780091949341 | ISBN 10: 0091949343

    Known for his intelligent and often surreal humour, Paul Merton’s weekly appearances on BBC1’s Have I Got News For You – as well as Radio 4’s Just A Minute and his travel documentaries – have seen him become an artfully rebellious fixture in our live ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich
    A Book of Dreams - by Peter Reich

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784182700 | ISBN 10: 1784182702

    "'Cloudbusting' was inspired by a book that I found in a shop ...Written by a guy called Peter Reich, and it's called A Book of Dreams. And it's very unusual, beautiful book, written by this man through the eyes of himself when he was a child, lookin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art by Patrick Howe
    The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art - by Patrick Howe

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780996455 | ISBN 10: 1780996454

    The Awakening Artist: Madness and Spiritual Awakening in Art is an art theory book that explores the collision of human madness and spiritual awakening in art. It examines a condition of insanity that can be seen in most art movements throughout art ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
    Mean Little Deaf Queer: A Memoir - by Terry Galloway

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780807073315 | ISBN 10: 0807073318

    When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O
    Sectioned: A Life Interrupted - by John O

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719520549 | ISBN 10: 0719520541

    'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last Rites.'  John O'Donoghue was first admitted to Claybu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella by Myriam Gurba
    Dahlia Season: Stories and a Novella - by Myriam Gurba

    £13.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781933149165 | ISBN 10: 1933149167

    Chicana. Goth. Dykling. Desiree Garcia knows she's weird and a weirdo magnet. To extinguish her strangeness, her parents ship her to St Michael's Catholic High School, then to Mexico, but neurology can't be snuffed out so easily: screwy brain chemist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billy, Come Home by Mary Rose Callaghan
    Billy, Come Home - by Mary Rose Callaghan

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780863223662 | ISBN 10: 0863223664

    A compelling, dramatic story of schizophrenia, murder and the rush to judgement; a story of prejudice and consequent tragedy. A teenage girl is brutally murdered, and Billy, a schizophrenic, is accused.  With its echoes of cases such as the Jill D ... more

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  • Cover image of book Doctor Salt by Gerard Donovan
    Doctor Salt - by Gerard Donovan

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780743263597 | ISBN 10: 0743263596

    'Feeling left out of the party? Innevitably disappointed? You may be suffering from Seasonal Anxiety Disorder, or SAD. A product has been developed that may alleviate the effects...' Sunless has his problems - don't we all these days? - but at l ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Flew Over the Cuckoo
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - by Ken Kesey

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141187884 | ISBN 10: 0141187883

    Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.  Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon

    £7.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099450252 | ISBN 10: 0099450259

     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.  The detective - and narrator - is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little ab ... more

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