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3) Another love
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In the early years of their love affair, Romilly was happy. She had worked hard for her stunning, modern house in one of Bristol's most fashionable suburbs. She adored her gorgeous, gap-toothed daughter and her handsome, kind husband. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large glass of wine at the end of the day couldn't fix. And then a new neighbour arrived and everything unravelled. A glass of wine became a bottle; one bottle...
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Headline
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2020
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Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In 'Glorious Rock Bottom' Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life.
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HQ
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2018
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It's YOUR body. It's YOUR mind. It's YOUR choice. If you're reading this right now, you're questioning how much you drink. Maybe you know you drink way too much and you want to quit. Or maybe you're just curious. No matter where you are on the drinking spectrum, you're not alone. You're probably wondering why in the world you keep drinking, even though you've made a conscious decision to cut back or quit altogether. Are you sick of waking up with...
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Arcturus
Pub. Date
2023
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Problem drinking begins with emotions. The desire to have 'just the one' to relax after work. The turning to a bottle of wine when things are going wrong and you're feeling stressed. The big special days, such as birthdays and Christmas, which we believe wouldn't be the same without a drink. Meanwhile, this wrongful belief is wreaking havoc with our health, relationships, finances, and lives. This destructive cycle can end. With Allen Carr's Easyway...
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He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps. " Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another.
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Harper Perennial
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2007
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Judith Hearne, a Catholic middle-aged spinster, moves into yet another bed-sit in Belfast. A socially isolated woman of modest means, she teaches piano to a handful of students to pass the day. Her only social activity is tea with the O'Neill family, who secretly dread her weekly visits.
11) Pour me: a life
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Aged thirty, at a treatment centre in the west of England, A.A. Gill lay in the last-chance saloon, in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. His dark yet laugh-out-loud memoir charts the year between the end of his marriage and the end of drinking, on April 1st. Or perhaps it was not a year - it might be only six months or eighteen. None of this is hand-on-Bible fact. The one charity of drink is that it strips away memory. So this book is an...
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Profile Books
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2022
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The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Broadcaster Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly...
13) Two sisters
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The Borough Press
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2023
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Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years, and both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in history and literature.
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HQ
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2018
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Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery. They fear drinking less will be boring, difficult and involve deprivation and significant lifestyle changes. 'This Naked Mind' offers a new solution. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, it will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture....