Memoirs
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‘Mum, what’s wrong with you?’
£9.99‘Mum, what’s wrong with you?’
Sunday Times bestseller
‘The mothering manual we all need’ Claudia Winkleman
Calling all Mums:
Are you feeling lonely and confused?
Are you panicking that you’re getting everything wrong?
Do you feel as if your relationship with your teenage daughter has worsened overnight?
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A body made of glass
£16.99A body made of glass
An ache, a pain, a mysterious lump, a strange sensation in some part of your body, the feeling that something is not right. The fear that something is, in fact, very wrong. These could be symptoms of illness. But they could also be the symptoms of hypochondria – an enigmatic condition that might be physiological or psychological or both. In this landmark book, Caroline Crampton tells the story of hypochondria, beginning in the age of Hippocrates and taking us right through to the wellness industry today.
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A flat place
£16.99A flat place
Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father’s car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she’s discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, Morecambe Bay, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain’s flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.
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A flat place
£10.99A flat place
Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father’s car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she’s discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, Morecambe Bay, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain’s flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.
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A heart that works
£10.99A heart that works
In this devastating, beautiful and deeply moving memoir of the loss of his son, Rob Delaney explores what life really means, and why it matters. When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you not only try to help them get better but you also labour under the general belief that you can help them get better. That’s not always the case though. Sometimes the nurses and the doctors can’t fix what’s wrong. Sometimes children die. Rob’s beautiful, bright, deeply alive son Henry died. This is the story of what happens when you lose a child, and everything you discover about life in the process.
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A Jihad For Love
£5.99A Jihad For Love
A heartbreaking plea for tolerance and compassion from Mohamed El-Bachiri, who lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels attack of March 2016.
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A life of contrasts
£12.99A life of contrasts
In ‘A Life of Contrasts’, the honourable Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of Britain’s Bright Young Things, rivetingly narrates her long life in her own inimitable Mitford way. Author Evelyn Waugh and politician Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, as well as Britain’s richest man, and she knew not only Winston Churchill – her uncle – but also Adolf Hitler. She was a guest in the grandest houses in Britain but also lived in Holloway Prison, London. Later the Duke and Duchess of Windsor entered her life, followed by Nelson Mandela. Hers is a uniquely intimate memoir from an exceptional perspective.
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
£10.99A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.
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A very private school
£25.00A very private school
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school.
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A Woman’s Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
£9.99A Woman’s Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A deeply affecting tribute to her mother’s life and death by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.Â
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Abroad in Japan
£10.99Abroad in Japan
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan’s history? ‘Abroad in Japan’ charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world’s most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo.
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Adventureholic
£20.00Adventureholic
Adventureholic invites readers on a roller-coaster ride around seven continents, as adventurer Neil Laughton details the extraordinary expeditions undertaken by him and his friends: from summiting Mount Everest with Bear Grylls to piloting the world’s first road-legal flying car on a 10,000km journey across the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu.
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Alphabetical diaries
£10.99Alphabetical diaries
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Levé.Â
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Among others
£25.00Among others
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the friends who have shaped his life – ‘before my memory goes’. Some have had a profound effect. Some, a small and passing one. Some, you may know yourself. Some you couldn’t possibly know at all; and maybe nor did Michael (there are stories of loves and tragedies here they you won’t soon forget). Michael’s acquaintances haven’t always been other people. How, for instance, did he get along with his own body over the years, especially now, as ninety approaches? And what of that oldest and strangest of friends: storytelling?
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An uneasy inheritance
£22.00An uneasy inheritance
While for generations Polly Toynbee’s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family – which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop – Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
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Bald
£11.99Bald
Nobody chooses to be bald. Nobody wants to look into the mirror and be confronted with an absence. Nobody gains any comfort from having a slightly better idea of what their skull looks like. Stuart Heritage has been bald for two years. But before he accepted the inevitable, he spent a number of years ineptly trying to conceal this fact with an array of expensive treatments and terrible haircuts. Can a man go bald with dignity? Maybe. But can a man go bald with more dignity than Stuart Heritage? Oh good god yes, and this book is his attempt to make that happen for you. Part-memoir-part-manual, Stuart brings us a self-deprecating, funny and genuinely helpful guide to being bald: what really happens, why it matters and how to feel much less crap about it.
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