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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 Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers by Various authors
    Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580950 | ISBN 10: 1910580953

    After the Lockdowns and the doorstop applause for frontline workers came to an end, carers, warehouse workers, medical and mental health professionals came together with Writing on the Wall to share their experiences of working on the frontline durin ... more

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  • Cover image of book In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
    In The Shadow of the Mountain - by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913183776 | ISBN 10: 1913183777

    ‘Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I’m in awe of her strength and courage.’ – Selena Gomez  ‘an incredibly powerful story’ Sunday Independent  ‘powerful’ – New York Times  In the In the Shadow of the Mounta ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything is True: A Junior Doctor
    Everything is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic - by Dr Roopa Farooki

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526633392 | ISBN 10: 1526633396

    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER  'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have ... more

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  • Cover image of book All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O
    All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying - by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O'Leary

    £8.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409189121 | ISBN 10: 1409189120

    'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shapeless Unease: My Year in Search of Sleep by Samantha Harvey
    The Shapeless Unease: My Year in Search of Sleep - by Samantha Harvey

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529112092 | ISBN 10: 1529112095

    Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Iceberg: A Memoir by Marion Coutts
    The Iceberg: A Memoir - by Marion Coutts

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782393528 | ISBN 10: 1782393528

    In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would eventually rob him of the ability to speak. He died early in 2011. Marion Coutts was his wife.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The C-Word by Lisa Lynch
    The C-Word - by Lisa Lynch

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784750473 | ISBN 10: 1784750476

    Updated with new material, The C Word is the incredibly moving, darkly humorous account of one woman's fight against breast cancer. Now a BBC Drama starring Sheridan Smith.   The last thing Lisa Lynch had expected to put on her 'things to do ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Zen Master Jun PO Denis Kelly Roshi by Keith Martin-Smith
    A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Zen Master Jun PO Denis Kelly Roshi - by Keith Martin-Smith

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781611250084 | ISBN 10: 1611250080

    Denis Kelly's life is part Hunter S. Thompson, part Timothy Leary, and part Eckhart Tolle.   From his beginnings in an abusive and alcoholic home in Wisconsin to becoming a major force in the counterculture movement, and then from a life on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
    The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves - by Siri Hustvedt

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780340998779 | ISBN 10: 0340998776

    While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or something else entirely?  In this profoundly thought-provoking and revea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Depresso - Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being Bonkers! by Brick
    Depresso - Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being Bonkers! - by Brick

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780861661701 | ISBN 10: 0861661702

    Our world is plagued by madness. With leaders bent on insane policies and too many citizens locked in crippling depression, normality seems elusive and questionable.  Part travelogue, part indictment of mad medicine, Depresso is Tom Freeman's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Second Opinion: A Doctor
    Second Opinion: A Doctor's Notes from the Inner City - by Theodore Dalrymple

    £14.99   hardback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906308124 | ISBN 10: 1906308128

    Theodore Dalrymple has spent 20 years working as a prison and hospital doctor in one of Britain’s poorest inner cities – and chronicling his experiences in regular dispatches in some of Britain’s best-selling magazines.  Drug addicts and desp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Grass Arena by John Healy
    The Grass Arena - by John Healy

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141189598 | ISBN 10: 0141189592

    In his searing autobiography, John Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begginh carried an automatic three-year prison sentence and vagrant alcoholics prowled the parks and streets in search of drink or pre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trouble in My Head: A Young Girl
    Trouble in My Head: A Young Girl's Fight with Depression - by Mathilde Monaque

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780091917234 | ISBN 10: 0091917239

    Mathilde Monaque developed severe depression when she was just 14. The eldest in a family of six and an exceptionally bright and gifted little girl, the discovery shook her family to the core. Trouble in My Head is Mathilde's tender and illuminating ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nonrunner
    The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women: Get Off Your Butt and on with Your Training - by Dawn Dais

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781580052054 | ISBN 10: 1580052053

    Dawn Dais was a woman who didn't believe that running was part of her biological destiny, and yet she tackled her doubts, laced up her shoes, and crossed the finish line on marathon day.  In this hilarious, true-to-life guide, she shares hard-ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness by Elizabeth Speller
    The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness - by Elizabeth Speller

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079250 | ISBN 10: 1862079250

    In 1880 Ada Curtis bore Gerald Howard the first of several illegitimate children. Ada was a housemaid, the daughter of a Lincolnshire butcher. Gerald was her employer and the son of a once-grand family now obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. T ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond a Boundary by C L R James
    Beyond a Boundary - by C L R James

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780224074278 | ISBN 10: 022407427x

    C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket.   In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding pas ... more

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