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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Unraveling Motherhood: Understanding Your Experience through Self-Reflection, Self-Care... by Geraldine Walsh
    Unraveling Motherhood: Understanding Your Experience through Self-Reflection, Self-Care... - by Geraldine Walsh

    £16.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781578269648 | ISBN 10: 1578269644

    “In this beautiful book, Geraldine gently guides us through the unraveling of our journeys through motherhood to finding our identities again, so we can begin to work on loving and accepting who we are through the ups and the lows. This book ... more

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  • Cover image of book (M)Othering: An Anthology by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan (Editors)
    (M)Othering: An Anthology - by Anne Sorbie and Heidi Grogan (Editors)

    £12.95   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781771339124 | ISBN 10: 1771339128

    (M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. Fifty-six contributors illuminate the kind of grit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival by Cash Carraway
    Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival - by Cash Carraway

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x

    “Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”  Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap. It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice by Lorna Gibb
    Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice - by Lorna Gibb

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783782642 | ISBN 10: 1783782641

    From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world’s richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb’s masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of peopl ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey
    This Mum Runs - by Jo Pavey

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780224100434 | ISBN 10: 0224100432

    The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.   'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This - by Nadja Spiegelman

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911231059 | ISBN 10: 1911231057

    A memoir of mothers and daughters, traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.   More than Nadja Spiegelman’s famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers — French-born New Yorker a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Raising Generation RX: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality by Linda M. Blum
    Raising Generation RX: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality - by Linda M. Blum

    £18.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781479871544 | ISBN 10: 1479871540

    Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with invisible disabilities such as ADHD, mood and conduct disorders, and high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Whether they are viewed as biological problems in brain wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn, illustrated by Sholto Walker
    Where the Wild Mums Are - by Katie Blackburn, illustrated by Sholto Walker

    £10.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571321513 | ISBN 10: 0571321518

    In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mongol by Uuganaa Ramsay
    Mongol - by Uuganaa Ramsay

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908643414 | ISBN 10: 1908643412

    Mongol [mong-gohl], noun, 1. a member of a pastoral people now living chiefly in Mongolia.
2. (offensive) a person affected with Downs Syndrome. Uuganaa is a Mongol in Britain, far from the world she grew up in: as a nomadic herder she liv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother
    Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother's Journey of Hope and Forgiveness - by Scarlett Lewis

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781801772 | ISBN 10: 1781801770

    Scarlett Lewis's son Jesse was one of the 26 people who lost their lives in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nurturing Healing Love is the incredible true story of her son's powerful message of love and hope before his tragic death.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher
    Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality - by Rebecca Asher

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099548843 | ISBN 10: 0099548844

    A manifesto for achieving a new equality between the sexes in family life, drawing on international research and case studies. If we live in an age of equality, why are women are still left holding the baby? Today women outperform me ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Poems About Mothers (Booklet) by Various authors
    Ten Poems About Mothers (Booklet) - by Various authors

    £4.95   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907598036 | ISBN 10: 1907598030

    Ten Poems about Mothers is a tribute to mothers everywhere; in the centenary year of International Women�s Day, it seems an appropriate (and schmaltz-free) alternative to a Mother�s Day card or a birthday card � or just a thank you - for mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who
    Who's Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers - by Edited by Yvonne Bynoe

    £11.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781593762391 | ISBN 10: 1593762399

    Not just your average book on motherhood, Who's Your Mama? treads new territory, taking on the unvarnished personal narratives of working class women, women of color, single mothers and gay mothers as they explore the complexities of both motherhood ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid? What Drugs Did to My Family by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips
    Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid? What Drugs Did to My Family - by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780749951726 | ISBN 10: 0749951729

    Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mothering Special Needs: A Different Maternal Journey by Anna Karin Kingston
    Mothering Special Needs: A Different Maternal Journey - by Anna Karin Kingston

    £18.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843105435 | ISBN 10: 1843105438

    This book explores the lived experience of mothers raising a child with a learning disability, through interviews with mothers of children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Down syndrome. With ... more

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  • Cover image of book 100 Tips for Parents Raising Drug-Free Kids by Aletha Solter
    100 Tips for Parents Raising Drug-Free Kids - by Aletha Solter

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780738210742 | ISBN 10: 0738210749

    In this book, a developmental psychologist gives parents tips for keeping children of all ages away from drugs and alcohol. In a country where an estimated 25 percent of teenagers use illegal substances on a monthly basis, parents are right to be con ... more

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