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Selina Mill
Life Unseen: A Story of BlindnessImagine a world without sight. Is it dark and g...Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why ... -
Colin Grant
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush GenerationHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand i...Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. I... -
Paul Theroux
Figures in a Landscape: People and PlacesDrawing together a fascinating body of writing ...Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate... -
Gavin Francis
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a PandemicGavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban a...Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney. When the pandemic arrived in our society he saw how it affected ... -
Wendy Moore
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military HospitalWhen the First World War broke out, the suffrag...When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett An... -
Cynthia Rogerson
Wah!: Things I Never Told My MotherCynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling be...Cynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, trai... -
Philippa Perry
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of PsychotherapyBestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You...Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vi... -
Alastair Campbell
Living Better: How I Learned to Survive DepressionLast Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. ...Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts.Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost.Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest... -
Angela Y. Davis
An AutobiographyA powerful and commanding account of the life o...A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Libera... -
Luke Dittrich
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family SecretsIn the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon Wi...In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. But it was a catastrophic failure, leaving H... -
Amy Liptrot
The OutrunAt the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself...At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of h... -
Hilary Spurling
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of TimeThe long-awaited portrait of a literary master ...The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic ...
