Wasted - A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued w...
The Bright Hour - A Memoir of Living and Dying
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast...
White Dresses : A Memoir of Love and Secrets; Mothers a...
In this riveting; poignant memoir of three generations...
Leaving Alexandria - A Memoir of Faith and Doubt
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of...
An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness
I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a su...
The Bright Hour - A Memoir of Living and Dying
In 2015, at the age of thirty-eight, Nina Riggs, the great-g...
In Danger - A Memoir of Family and Hope
When Josepha Dietrich was 21, her mother was diagnosed with ...
How to Kiss Goodbye to Ana - Using EFT in Recovery from...
Do you struggle with Ana (anorexia) or have a difficult rela...
Writing My Wrongs - Life, Death, and Redemption in an A...
New York Times bestseller from member of OprahÂ’s Super Soul...
Overcoming Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating 3rd Edition...
A Books on Prescription TitleStep-by-step – the proven path...
Wasted - A Memoir Of Anorexia And Bulimia
Priestdaddy - A Memoir
‘Glorious’ Sunday Times’Laugh-out-loud funny’ The Times’Extraordinary’ Observer’Exceptional’ Telegraph’Electric’ New York Times’Snort-out-loud’ Financial Times’Dazzling’ Guardian’Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!’ BookPage The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed’ The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas’ by The New York Times, was unusual in ma...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club) - A Memoir
THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOKCLUB 2016 SELECTION | A #1 NYT BESTSELLER ’IT’S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE, AND TRANSLATED THEM INTO WORDS THAT ANYONE WHO’S EVER KNOWN PAIN OR SHAME CAN RELATE TO’ OPRAH WINFREY ’THE VITAL, LONG-OVERDUE, MUCH-NEEDED SISTER MEMOIR TO EAT PRAY LOVE’ ELIZABETH GILBERT | ‘BLEW ME AWAY’ BRENE BROWN Just when Glennon Doyle Melton wa...
Once We Were Sisters - A Memoir
ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immedi...
Red Scarf Girl - A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Publishers Weekly Best Book â ALA Best Book for Young Adults â ALA Notable Children’s Book â ALA Booklist Editors’ ChoiceIn the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and I Am Malala, this is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. This edition includes a detailed glossary, pronunciation guide, dis...
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. ’You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his ‘first contact with poverty’. Here, h...
Primates of Park Avenue - A Memoir
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive andÂ…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe-ManhattanÂ’s Upper East Side mothers. When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York CityÂ’s Upper East Side, sheÂ’s clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and sheÂ...
Is This My Beautiful Life? - A Memoir
‘Her honesty shatters the mask of stoicism…the impact of her revealing memoir should not be underestimated.’ Sydney Morning Herald ’…open and touching.’ Book’d Out Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador for beyondblue and patron of its work on post-natal depression, Member of the Order of Australia, risk-taker, social commentator, charity worker, public speaker, p...
A Certain Light - A Memoir of Family, Loss and Hope
‘Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn’t for me.’ Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham’s inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means: ’This book tells a story that I tried to write many times before, but couldn’t. For a long time, it was too painful to tell. It is also ...
Writing My Wrongs - Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
New York Times bestseller from member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100 – one of World Economic Forum’s Most Recommended Books of 2016 Now in paperback, the harrowing, * inspiring**, and unforgettable+ memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack...
The Auctioneer - A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions
Simon de Pury is the art world’s ultimate insider. His roles have included curator of the world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, and founder and owner of Sotheby’s rival Phillips de Pury. His exuberant style, showmanship and iconoclasm in a highly conservative profession saw him described as ‘the Mick Jagger of auctions’. His memoir of a life lived within th...
White Dresses : A Memoir of Love and Secrets; Mothers and Daughte
In this riveting; poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption; and her battle to rescue her mother; a former nun; from compulsive hoarding.As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America; Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized pro...
The Maddie Diaries - A Memoir
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF DANCE SUPERSTAR MADDIE ZIEGLER! Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star – she just didn’t know how soon that day would come. At just eight years old, she was cast on hit reality show Dance Moms and quickly won the hearts of fans everywhere with her natural talent and determination. Soon, she was catching eyes all over – including those of pop supersta...
A Memoir of Jane Austen - and Other Family Recollections
‘I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.’ James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continu...
Ammonites and Leaping Fish - A Life in Time
‘One of the finest novelists writing in Britain today’ Times Magazine A memoir that addresses ageing, memory, time and a life in the 20th century, by one of our greatest writers, Penelope Lively. ’This is not quite a memoir. Rather, it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself, this place at which we arrive with a certain surprise – ambushed, or so it can seem. One of the few a...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatryÂ’s most important figures. Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye upon himself. He opens his story with a nightmare- He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her...
How to Murder Your Life - A Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in Ameri...
On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as ‘the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature’, Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the w...
Madam Secretary - A Memoir
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of AmericaÂ’s first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill ClintonÂ’s two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time-from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATOÂ’s intervention in the...
Fragile Lives - A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENTÂ’S AWARD 2017An incredible memoir from one of the worldÂ’s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases heÂ’s worked on. Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeonÂ’s shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.The balance between life and death is so delica...
Heart Berries - A Memoir
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by: Goodreads, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, B*tch, NYLON, Buzzfeed, Bustle, The Rumpus, and the New York Public Library A New York Times Editor’s Choice “A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past, trauma, re...
And Then I Found Me
Noel Tovey’s previous memoir, Little Black Bastard ( Hodder Headline Australia 2004, shortlisted Victorian Premier’s Prize for Indigenous Writing, Australian Human Rights Award) chronicled his extraordinary life – from a childhood lived in poverty, through to his international stage career, return to Australia and eventual reconciliation with his past. In this uplifting new work, Tovey craft...