Love, Expanded
Wren BurkeA boundary-pushing book on love and relationships in all its forms, showing exactly what we can all learn from the asexual community.Love, Expanded is not a book about suffering, though the challenges …
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When Life Gives You Lemurs
Tim HusbandRRP: £16.99
‘A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.’ Richard GloverTim Husband was born into a Jehovah’s Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God’s Word. …
A Very French Affair
Maria HoyleRRP: £14.99
What do you say when a man you’ve dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: ‘Are you out of your mind?’ Maria Hoyle’s was: ‘Okay.’At …
The Diaries of Mr Lucas
Hugo GreenhalghRRP: £10.99
‘A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life’ Guardian’Fascinating’ The Times’Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny’ Spectator’Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shockin …
Frighten the Horses
Oliver RadclyffeRRP: £16.99
‘This book is as sharp as razors, but it also pulses with a passionate, desperate, human urgency for truth and liberation. I am deeply grateful to have read it’ Elizabeth GilbertAs the daughter of two …
I Don't Need Therapy
Toni LodgeRRP: £16.99
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of ‘that girl energy’ is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan.Most of us tell little white lies all the time. Whether it’s ‘I’m f …
The House With All The Lights On
Jessica KirknessRRP: £16.99
The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what it is to be a member of a family where the most beautiful of bonds are born in difference.’If I were …
Book of Life
Deborah ConwayRRP: £16.99
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall – and rise – of one of Australia’s most iconic music performers.You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and …
One of Them
Shaneel LalRRP: £16.99
‘Shaneel is not like anyone you have ever met. An absolute must-read.’ – Ruby TuiWhat would you do if you were told by the people you loved the most that the way you were born was evil and wrong?For S …
Everything/Nothing/Someone
Alice CarrièreRRP: £14.99
*GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY* *A JENNETTE MCCURDY BOOKCLUB PICK*’The story is extraordinary, but more importantly, the storytelling is exceptional… If you read one memoir this year, make …
Love Language
Linda MariglianoRRP: £16.99
Linda Marigliano has built a career out of performing for other people. In her day-job as an on-air presenter or in her family home, she contorted herself into ‘the cool girl’ or ‘the good girl’, and …
Why We Sing
Julia HollanderRRP: £12.99
‘A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song’ – Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific f …
The Crossing
Sophie MattersonRRP: £16.99
‘The Crossing is as profound as it is moving – a tapestry of adventure, love and, of course, camels.’ Tim Cope, author of On the Trail of Genghis KhanIn 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterso …
Self-Made Man
Norah VincentRRP: £10.99
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as …
The Path of Peace
Anthony SeldonRRP: £12.99
Blackwell’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month’A formidable achievement’ Rory Stewart’Thoughtful [and] heartfelt’ Observer’Profound [and] compelling’ Spectator’A noble endeavour’ New StatesmanWithout a per …
Vital Signs
Izzy Lomax-SawyersRRP: £14.99
Diagnosis and death; uncertainty and urgent laxatives; sleep deprivation and synthetic drawstring trousers: this debut work by Izzy Lomax-Sawyers chronicles her first year as a tired junior doctor at …
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