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Mental Health in Fiction -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
    Woman on the Edge of Time - by Marge Piercy

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033780 | ISBN 10: 1785033786

    Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shark by Will Self
    Shark - by Will Self

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141046389 | ISBN 10: 0141046384

    Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand
    The More You Ignore Me - by Jo Brand

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780755322329 | ISBN 10: 0755322320

    A genuinely funny and original novel about mental illness, growing up and parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Brand.   Alice is five, and convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family, tucked in a cottage in deep ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
    The Quickening Maze - by Adam Foulds

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099532446 | ISBN 10: 0099532441

    Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2009. Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, criti ... more

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  • Cover image of book BrainBomb by Mark Fleming
    BrainBomb - by Mark Fleming

    £15.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847479334 | ISBN 10: 1847479332

    This felt like the ultimate bad acid trip. One moment I was lounging on my bed, gawking at a Siouxsie and the Banshees poster. Next I was screaming my lungs raw while head-butting Siouxsie Sioux.   BrainBomb is a novel telling the lurid sto ... 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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