Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
By: Polly Curtis
4.33
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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2. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
3. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
4. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
5. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- audiobook
6. Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
By: Christina Lamb
4.63
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war."-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude ston…"-Christina Lamb, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
7. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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- audiobook
9. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
10. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Cursed Bread
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.28
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more
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- audiobook
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread
12. My Name Is Why
By: Lemn Sissay
4.29
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more
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- audiobook
13. Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
By: Polly Curtis
4.33
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY 'A must-read book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Extraordinar… read more
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- nonfiction
- social work
- audiobook
14. Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
By: Kerry Hudson
4.15
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhoo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was a private investigator, digging my way through my own deeply buried secrets, both desperate for answers and fighting to keep them hidden."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
"Here I was chasing my past, trying to piece things together but perhaps the real courage was in simply accepting the things that happen and learning to live with them."-Kerry Hudson, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
15. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
16. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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- audiobook
18. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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19. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story
By: Leah Hazard
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more
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- audiobook
20. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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21. Top Girl
By: Danielle Marin
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Top Girl is the tell-all, true story of a grammar school girl turned drug dealer. Danielle has a s… read more
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- audiobook
22. The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
3.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three… read more
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"New dangers, though, coming to the surface like the bubbles of soap."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"Love as a protest within my body. Or perhaps it’s just that I am unused to touch, am out of practice. Bodies do not lie. This all acts as proof that he has touched me here, here, here."-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
"It used to bother me that we would leave little trace, but now I have never been more glad about anything. I will wake up in the empty mornings with the absence of you, and I will think, Glad, glad, …"-Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure
23. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By: Peter Apps
4.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The truth about Grenfell at long last. It is hardly possible to admit it. That the biggest tower bl… read more
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24. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
By: Emma Dabiri
4.41
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more
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"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
25. All The Young Men
By: Ruth Coker Burks
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more
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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men
26. Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women
By: Helena Kennedy
4.41
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discrimin… read more
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27. Careering
By: Daisy Buchanan
3.35
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more
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28. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal
By: Octavia Bright
4.32
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more
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- audiobook
29. Tenants
By: Vicky Spratt
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022, METRO, EVENING STANDARD, REFINERY29, COSMOPOLITAN'Tenants should be … read more
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30. Looked After: A Childhood in Care
By: Ashley John-Baptiste
4.68
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'This is a book that everyone must read. No matter how you grew up … read more
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31. All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
By: Kieran Yates
4.26
Format: None pages, Audiobook
‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of… read more
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