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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist
£18.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472279095 | ISBN 10: 1472279093
***Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction*** ‘Part memoir, part howl of fury’ GUARDIAN ‘Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ‘Raw and compelling’ FINANCI ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781904491316 | ISBN 10: 1904491316
Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His writing on life as a rough sleeper, interwoven through this scorching diary piece, offers a clear-eyed truth from the gutters of Britain’s housing crisis. His testimo ... more
View book details£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780816693481 | ISBN 10: 081669348x
It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. The Value of Homelessness argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and social sciences, which shape not onl ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472113115 | ISBN 10: 147211311x
Set in Glasgow, this is a bitter-sweet story about two very different people trying to survive very different kinds of crises. Funny, sad and tender, The Glasgow Coma Scale is a richly layered novel: it announces a major new literary talent. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141978192 | ISBN 10: 0141978198
Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our c ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908434371 | ISBN 10: 1908434376
SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST 2014 PICK OF THE YEAR Three cities, two years, one chance: from the author of the critically acclaimed debut So It Is — shortlisted for best first book at the Scottish Book Awards 2013 — comes the hard-hitting story of a young ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444737110 | ISBN 10: 1444737112
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he nee ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747599647 | ISBN 10: 0747599645
A tense, brilliant novel of home and homelessness. Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely spea ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719520549 | ISBN 10: 0719520541
'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last Rites.' John O'Donoghue was first admitted to Claybu ... more
View book details£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
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780955352089 | ISBN 10: 0955352088
Unsettled by Graham Walker is an inspiration autobiography. It will make you laugh and it will make you cry. Most of all, it will change the way you view homeless people for ever. Graham Walker began giving away excerpts from his life story writ ... more
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