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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£18.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408858073 | ISBN 10: 140885807x
Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attemp ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199548811 | ISBN 10: 0199548811
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this ... more
View book details£14.44 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906205317 | ISBN 10: 1906205310
"In October 2001, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I said no to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, and decided to follow a natural course of holistic healing - It's not that I wanted to rule out orthodox medicine altogether, indeed no - I w ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007258963 | ISBN 10: 0007258968
"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoon-ist with a fabulous life finds...a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904614128 | ISBN 10: 1904614124
A little over a year since the appearance of her first book of poetry, Sudden Collapses in Public Places (which was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Julia Darling completed her second collection. Her first book grew from her e ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781879960732 | ISBN 10: 1879960737
Originally published in 1980, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals offers a profoundly feminist analysis of her experience with breast cancer and a modified radical mastectomy. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Lorde fuses the ... more
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