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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
£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781761500169 | ISBN 10: 1761500163
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and disability advocate Chloé Hayden 'Fierce, unapologetic and joyous...This book is a marvel.' -Jordon Steele-John, D ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914484667 | ISBN 10: 1914484665
'Moving...the essays are at their richest when the authors describe what ought to be mundane (for example, discussing how to adjust the height of a kitchen counter for a wheelchair) or when they are brutally honest.’ James Coney, The Sunday Times ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817
***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD*** In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781984899422 | ISBN 10: 1984899422
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent — but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911617563 | ISBN 10: 1911617567
A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger’s syndrome. It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that’s come bef ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982100544 | ISBN 10: 1982100540
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785924347 | ISBN 10: 1785924346
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781257760 | ISBN 10: 1781257760
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...' For twelve years, Bella ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124222 | ISBN 10: 1910124222
'From the moment I watched a documentary of Chris Bonington and Tom Patey climb the perpendicular flanks of the Old Man of Hoy I knew that my life would not be complete until I had followed in their footholds. That was in 1983 when I was thirteen. Wi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352
What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547037 | ISBN 10: 1843547031
An intensely honest, riveting and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a you ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539537 | ISBN 10: 0099539535
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading a ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844547845 | ISBN 10: 1844547841
When Anna and Sean Kennedy discovered that one of their sons had asperger's syndrome and that their other son was autistic, they were truly devastated, but their family's troubles were just the beginning. Turned away by no fewer than 26 special needs ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843108023 | ISBN 10: 184310802x
From her first inklings of Elijah's difference, to her discovery of a whole spectrum of another way of life that includes everything from civil rights organizations for autistics to Asperger artists, Valerie Paradiz describes how she decided to cross ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781843107125 | ISBN 10: 1843107120
His discovery only in retirement that he has high-functioning autism provided Edgar Schneider at last with an explanation for his many differences, explored in Living the Good Life With Autism. In this book he takes up the story, telling of his ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780749391775 | ISBN 10: 0749391774
The autobiography of Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who was born and raised in Dublin, and died in 1981. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. ... more
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