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2019
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Aneta and Filip, the children?s parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth. It?s true the family has never come to the attention of the social services before and little Kit and Molly appear to have been well looked after, but Kit has a broken arm and bruises on his face. Could it be they were a result of a genuine accident as...
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Picador
Pub. Date
2018
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Marianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life? She decided to test one book a month for a year, following their advice to the letter. What would happen if she followed the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could she unearth The Secret to making her dreams come true? What begins as a clever experiment becomes an achingly poignant story. Because...
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Harper Element
Pub. Date
2017
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Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with neo-natal abstinence syndrome and a cleft palate. Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother?s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie?s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ?forever mummy? in Rosie. Rosie grows incredibly attached...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
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From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making divorce from Eddie Fisher, raising a famous daughter to hitting the road with a successful one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds has been in the spotlight for decades. She?s met presidents, performed for the Queen of England, and partied with kings. A show business icon, she continues to sing and dance-and can drop more names than Andy Cohen. In this fabulous personal tour, she recalls wonderful moments...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
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For three years the Goss twins, Luke and Matt, had the world at their feet. Their records ripped to the top of the charts, they filled concert halls and were mobbed wherever they went.Their fall was as fast and spectacular as their rise. From being pop?s golden boys they became the band that everyone loved to hate, amidst spectacular rumours of bankruptcy and media manipulation.What went wrong? In this compelling book Luke Goss tells the whole incredible...
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W.F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
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You already know the stereotypes. The strong, independent woman who strips to support her own sumptuous lifestyle choices; the smart, sassy student who strips to pay her way through university; or the savvy immigrant who sends money to her family back home. Or what about the wayward party girl rebelling against her strict upbringing, or the single-mum raising her child with precious little in the way of resources?In this powerful book, Stacey Clare,...
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Harper Element
Pub. Date
2017
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Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother?s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie?s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ?forever mummy? in Rosie. Rosie grows incredibly attached to Megan and applies to adopt her, but the system refuses her in favour of a young couple and Rosie is devastated. Against all her instincts, Rosie...
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2019
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'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney 'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius' Patricia Lockwood 'An outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique' Ben Lerner 'Some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read' Hari Kunzru A week after her 41st birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip...
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Gill Books
Pub. Date
2020
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It?s a dark, rainy afternoon on Dublin?s jammed M50. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles? car. She is 29, a highly successful radio presenter, model and influencer, but she can?t stop the panic building in her head and chest. The internal state that she has been trying to ignore is finally spilling over into something undeniably physical. She is petrified. She looks to her boyfriend and says, ?I don?t know who or where I am.?...
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
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That is myeconomist training, which I combine with an assumptionthat things can be improved - and it is how I haveapproached my whole career.?As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood?s insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political power in this country for more than 25 years.He served directly four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, as the first and...
11) Home and Alone
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Viva Editions
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2024.
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Beginning with his film debut in Breaking Away, Daniel Stern has grown up on-screen before our very eyes. His connection with audiences is cemented in movies like Home Alone and City Slickers, and in his debut memoir, Home and Alone with Daniel Stern, he is the Everyman narrator on a ride into the human side of Hollywood. Buckle up and experience what it's like driving Robert Redford in his Porsche at 100 mph, or stripping down for a nude scene in...
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Whether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it's getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of an embarrassment is ever increasing. But hope is not lost. 'How to Grow Old' is John's offering to the world. With sage advice on how to avoid the common pitfalls of age, intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious commentary on his own advancing years, this is his observational comic...
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'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to...
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through...
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused him to reconsider his future. He kept a diary throughout his training, and 'This Is Going to Hurt' intersperses tales from the front line of the NHS with reflections on the current crisis. The result is a first-hand account of life as a junior doctor in all its joy, pain, sacrifice and maddening bureaucracy, and a love letter to those who might at any...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021
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Come round to Louis Theroux?s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger . . . Like millions of others, Louis? plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects...
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Lagom
Pub. Date
2024
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With the death of her husband Greg as the catalyst, Stacey explores the full spectrum of our lives as women and all its complexities. Told through the lens of her life and experiences, she examines the messy and unexpected realities of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief and its aftermath, and the challenges and questions that our nuanced lives force upon us.
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Picador
Pub. Date
2022
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Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In 'Sentenced to Life,' he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In 'Injury Time,' he wrote about living well in the time remaining, focusing our attention on the joys of family and art, and celebrating the immediate beauty of the world. When 'The River in the Sky' opens, we find James in ill...
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Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2021
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The malodorous horrors of sports day. Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening. Refereeing teenage relationship dramas. This is not what you see in the adverts. From the age of eight, Ryan Wilson dreamt of being a teacher. This is the inside story of his time at the chalkface, from fresh-faced trainee with grand ideals to exhausted assistant head battling ever-changing government demands. It is a tribute to the colleagues who befriended him and to the...
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Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it - it is like a book and everybody who visits it will find different things. Marc Hamer has designed and nurtured 12 acres of garden for over two decades. It is rarely visited so he is the only person who fully knows its secrets; but it is not his own. His relationship with the garden's owner is both distant and curiously intimate, steeped in the mysterious connection which exists between two people who inhabit...