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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers by Various authors
    Behind the Mask: A Collection of Stories from Frontline Workers - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580950 | ISBN 10: 1910580953

    After the Lockdowns and the doorstop applause for frontline workers came to an end, carers, warehouse workers, medical and mental health professionals came together with Writing on the Wall to share their experiences of working on the frontline durin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
    Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods - by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015002 | ISBN 10: 0349015007

    A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A Jewish grandmother describes getting her first period in front of Nazi soldiers. A trans woman, a trans man and a non-b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Consumed: In Search of My Sister by Arifa Akbar
    Consumed: In Search of My Sister - by Arifa Akbar

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529347555 | ISBN 10: 1529347556

    * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY *  ‘If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there really is no justice in the literary world.’ Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times  All happy families are alik ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
    Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - by Roxane Gay

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472153791 | ISBN 10: 1472153790

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.   'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Life in My Hands by Rachel Clarke
    Your Life in My Hands - by Rachel Clarke

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786068651 | ISBN 10: 1786068656

    To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life? To toughen up the hard way, through repeated exposure to life-and-death situations, clinging on until your skills, expertise and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything by Sally Magnusson
    Where Memories Go: Why Dementia Changes Everything - by Sally Magnusson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781444751819 | ISBN 10: 1444751816

    Scottish broadcaster and author, Sally Magnusson, cared with her two sisters for her mother, Mamie, during her long struggle with dementia, until her death in 2012. This moving and honest account of losing a loved one day by day to an insidious disea ... more

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  • Cover image of book [Sic] by Joshua Cody
    [Sic] - by Joshua Cody

    £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822463 | ISBN 10: 1408822466

    Joshua Cody was about to receive his PhD from Columbia University when he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He underwent six months of chemotherapy. The treatment failed. Expectations for survival plummeted. After consulting with several oncol ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dark Threads by Jean Davison
    The Dark Threads - by Jean Davison

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906373597 | ISBN 10: 1906373590

    Teenage life in the swinging sixties, hanging out in coffee bars talking fashion and pop music, who could wish for more? But in August 1968, growing pains started to kick hard for 18-year-old office worker Jean Davison and adolescent idealism quickly ... more

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  • Cover image of book The After-Death Room: Journey into Spiritual Activism by Michael McColly
    The After-Death Room: Journey into Spiritual Activism - by Michael McColly

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781932360929 | ISBN 10: 1932360921

    The After-Death Room offers an insider's urgent quest for a more global understanding of the psycho-spiritual challenges that people face who wake up each morning inside the AIDS epidemic and have to act, to learn, to hope from there.   McColly's ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
    Cancer Vixen: A True Story - by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

    £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

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  • Cover image of book My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
    My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes - by Gary Imlach

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780224072687 | ISBN 10: 0224072684

    Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time. A brilliant winger who thrilled the crowd on Saturdays, then worked alongside them in the off-season; who represented Scotland in the 1958 World Cup and never received a cap for hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book In The Company of Women by Alwin Peter
    In The Company of Women - by Alwin Peter

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780953247714 | ISBN 10: 0953247716

    If you only ever buy one book this has to be it. This book is just extraordinary in the true meaning of the word. It is rare to find a book, which voices the experience of black women on such a wide range of issues. This book is straight talking and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections - by C.G. Jung

    £10.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780006540274 | ISBN 10: 0006540279

    The frank revelations of the innermost life of one of the greatest explorers of the human mind. A unique document of our own and of all time."Jung's single-minded humility, his passion to unearth truth, is one of the loveliest impressions to emerge f ... more

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