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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
    Strong Female Character - by Fern Brady

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781914240478 | ISBN 10: 1914240472

    WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST GOODREADS CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER   ‘An absolute riot. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Autists: Women on the Spectrum by Clara Tornvall
    The Autists: Women on the Spectrum - by Clara Tornvall

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914484810 | ISBN 10: 1914484819

    ‘Törnvall has written an important, illuminating first book, one that deserves to sit alongside the best insider accounts of autism … [The Autists] should be required reading for all parents, partners, friends and colleagues of anyone on the aut ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poor Little Sick Girls: A Love Letter to Unacceptable Women by Ione Gamble
    Poor Little Sick Girls: A Love Letter to Unacceptable Women - by Ione Gamble

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349702421 | ISBN 10: 034970242x

    ‘Incredible insight with a transgressive, witty, spirit.’ COURTNEY LOVE ‘The most sensational read of 2022!’ GEMMA COLLINS ‘A breath of fresh air... I want so many people to read this!’ TRAVIS ALABANZA ‘Visionary’ VIV ALBERTINE A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby
    Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - by Hannah Gadsby

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253

    There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette  Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels by Sara Gibbs
    Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels - by Sara Gibbs

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472274366 | ISBN 10: 1472274369

    'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
    Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body - by Rebekah Taussig

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780062936806 | ISBN 10: 0062936808

    A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg
    Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism - by Joanne Limburg

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838950057 | ISBN 10: 1838950052

    'It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.'  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
    Golem Girl: A Memoir - by Riva Lehrer

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817

    ***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***  In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe
    How To Be Autistic - by Charlotte Amelia Poe

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408320 | ISBN 10: 1912408325

    An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.  Poe’s voice is confident, moving ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown
    The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me - by Keah Brown

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982100544 | ISBN 10: 1982100540

    From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.  Keah Brown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism by Barb Cook and Dr Michelle Garnett
    Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism - by Barb Cook and Dr Michelle Garnett

    £16.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785924347 | ISBN 10: 1785924346

    Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst
    Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found - by Bella Bathurst

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781257760 | ISBN 10: 1781257760

    'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...'   For twelve years, Bella ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the **** is Normal?! by Francesca Martinez
    What the **** is Normal?! - by Francesca Martinez

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352

    What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero by Jessica Thom
    Welcome to Biscuit Land: A Year in the Life of Touretteshero - by Jessica Thom

    £12.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780285641273 | ISBN 10: 0285641271

    “It is the hippies of outrageous fortune that weigh heavy on the minds of dogs,”  Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero. Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears – she’s one of ab ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Who Thought Too Much: A Memoir by Joanne Limburg
    The Woman Who Thought Too Much: A Memoir - by Joanne Limburg

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547037 | ISBN 10: 1843547031

    An intensely honest, riveting and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a you ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome by Rudy Simone
    Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome - by Rudy Simone

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849058261 | ISBN 10: 1849058261

    Girls with Asperger's Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, and even once symptoms have been recognised, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females of any age can often mask difficulties, deficit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin
    Animals in Translation - by Temple Grandin

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747566694 | ISBN 10: 0747566690

    Animals in Translation is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist, and her own experience of being autistic.  With co-author Catherine Johnson, G ... more

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  • Cover image of book Thinking in Pictures - And Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
    Thinking in Pictures - And Other Reports from My Life with Autism - by Temple Grandin

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747585329 | ISBN 10: 0747585326

    The idea that some people think differently, though no less humanly, is explored in this inspiring book.  Temple Grandin is a gifted and successful animal scientist, and she is autistic. Here she tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls by Lois Keith
    Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls - by Lois Keith

    £11.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704346512 | ISBN 10: 0704346516

    'Bow we shall be able to come up here together every day, and just go where we like; and you will be able all your life to walk about as I do, and not be pushed about in a chair ... it is the greatest happiness we could have had!' (from Heidi, Joanna ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl by Donna Williams
    Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl - by Donna Williams

    £13.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853027185 | ISBN 10: 1853027189

    Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar: deaf, wild, disturbed, stupid, insane... She lived within herself, her own world her foreground, ours a background she only visited. Isolated from herself and from the outside world, Donna w ... more

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