How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
By: Pandora Sykes
3.75
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Modern life is full of choices. We’re told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want…
Want to Read"The woman that does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. Our desire for validation is far older than the internet."-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do."-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"In a world crowded with the white noise of other people's narratives -- the collective narrative of social media; the multi-strand narratives of binge TV -- having your own, singular, internal narrative is nothing short of essential."-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"It can’t be long before burnout is recognized by the NHS as a type of work-related stress. But we should be vary of using it as a non-specific term. Almost every single zeitgeisty buzz word or phrase has suffered the fate of overextension. Like “gaslighting"-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
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1. Snowing in Bali
By: Kathryn Bonella
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having ju… read more
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- nonfiction
2. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
By: Nora Ephron
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more
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3. Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
4. Scenes of a Graphic Nature
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
5. Magpie
By: Elizabeth Day
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"-Elizabeth Day, Magpie
6. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
7. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
8. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- psychology
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
9. Mad Woman
By: Bryony Gordon
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
11. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
12. Expectation
By: Anna Hope
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
"They discuss whether discharge - with its pejorative connotations - is itself a patriarchal term. They decide that there are as many different types of vaginal abjects as Inuits have words for snow. …"-Anna Hope, Expectation
"Her head hurts - from the alcohol, from her mother, from the sun. _We changed the world for you and what have you done with it?_ She knows what Sarah thinks. That she has wasted time - fumbled the ba…"-Anna Hope, Expectation
13. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
14. Everything I Know About Love
By: Dolly Alderton
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
15. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
16. How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
By: Pandora Sykes
3.75
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Modern life is full of choices. We’re told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- psychology
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"The woman that does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. Our desire for validation is far older than the internet."-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"Me without reading is like me without food. I would wilt and become silent. I don't read because it is 'better' than watching television. I read because I don't know what else to do."-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"In a world crowded with the white noise of other people's narratives -- the collective narrative of social media; the multi-strand narratives of binge TV -- having your own, singular, internal narrat…"-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
"It can’t be long before burnout is recognized by the NHS as a type of work-related stress. But we should be vary of using it as a non-specific term. Almost every single zeitgeisty buzz word or phrase…"-Pandora Sykes, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
17. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
18. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- self help
19. Ghosts
By: Dolly Alderton
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
20. Dear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
21. Olive
By: Emma Gannon
3.68
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon. Independent. Adrift. An… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- contemporary
"Did you know six minutes of reading can help reduce stress levels by up to sixty percent?" ... "That's sixty-eight percent better than listening to music, one hundred percent better than drinking tea…"-Emma Gannon, Olive
22. I Am Not Your Baby Mother
By: Candice Brathwaite
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
24. How to Fail
By: Elizabeth Day
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- psychology
- nonfiction
- self help
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
25. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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- contemporary
- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
26. The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
By: Nell Frizzell
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
27. Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
By: Elizabeth Day
3.86
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In Failosophy: a handbook for when things go wrong, Elizabeth Day, author of How to Fail, and creat… read more
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- self help
- psychology
- short stories
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We have made ourselves look like failures in our mind's eye simply because the original plan was faulty. In the rush to achieve illusory perfection, we have ignored our own limitations and tried to d…"-Elizabeth Day, Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
28. Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations
By: Jessie Ware
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
"Are you hungry darling, shall I make you an omelette?" My mother's omelettes are slightly overd… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- essays
29. Square One
By: Nell Frizzell
3.26
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at… read more
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- contemporary
- audiobook
30. We Need to Talk About Money
By: Otegha Uwagba
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this unforgettable blend of memoir and cultural commentary, Otegha Uwagba explores her own compl… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
31. Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits
By: Raven Smith
3.55
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
’Instagram’s answer to David Sedaris.’ ST STYLE MAGAZINE ’Irresistibly readable.’ DOLLY ALDERTON … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
