24 Best nonfiction books like A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair by Belinda Black

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A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

By: Belinda Black

4.49

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and o…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair by Belinda Black , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

By: Michelle Williams

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an … read more

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2. Process: Finding my way through

By: Lucy Spraggan

4.70

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'A memoir of great power and emotional honesty. To read this book is to be in awe of Spraggan's str… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. The Secret Prisoner: Diary Of A Prisoner

By: Daniel hockey

4.17

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The Secret Prisoner Book is a first hand insight into what prison is like in the UK. This truely is… read more

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4. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything

By: Fiona Gibson

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Kate is sick of being taken for granted by her husband Vince. It’s bad enough that she allowed hers… read more

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6. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Brutally Honest

By: Melanie Brown

4.06

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines   … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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9. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

By: Sohom Das

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

By: Kerry Daynes

4.03

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There is no them and us, it is just us."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

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12. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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14. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. A Single Act of Kindness

By: Samantha Tonge

4.31

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Tilda Wright… Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No lon… read more

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16. Stitched Up

By: Shahed Yousaf

4.18

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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17. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life by Emily Katy

18. Girl Unmasked: The Sunday Times Bestseller: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life

By: Emily Katy

4.72

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

'Emily's moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive by Linda Calvey

19. Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

By: Linda Calvey

4.49

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brut… read more

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20. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison

By: Alex South

4.52

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist. by Rebecca Myers

21. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

By: Rebecca Myers

3.97

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth

22. 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service

By: Dan Farnworth

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontlin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. The Real Doc Martin: The Humour, Sadness and Absurdity of a Life in General Practice

By: Martin Stagg

4.14

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

'Near the end would be good.' For over thirty years a GP called Martin sat at his desk on the outs… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dangerous Minds: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence by Taj Nathan

24. Dangerous Minds: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence

By: Taj Nathan

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

' Exceptional . . . This thoughtful and engrossing book is as much about law as it is about minds' … read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

By: Belinda Black

4.49

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and o… read more

Similar categories in Belinda Black's A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair book and Belinda Black's A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion by Jonathan Levi and Emma French

26. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion

By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French

3.59

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies by Maggie Hartley

27. Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies

By: Maggie Hartley

4.81

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been i… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception by Rob Parkes

28. Married to the Black Widow: A chilling true story of lies and deception

By: Rob Parkes

4.44

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

*AS FEATURED IN CHANNEL 4's 24 HOURS IN POLICE CUSTODY*'Not many people know how much their life is… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? by Cathy Glass

29. Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?

By: Cathy Glass

4.44

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Missing: My life finding the lost and delivering justice for the living by Charlie Hedges

30. Missing: My life finding the lost and delivering justice for the living

By: Charlie Hedges

3.89

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

350,000: the number of missing person reports opened in the UK every year. But how do we find the m… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry by Penelope Campling

31. On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry

By: Penelope Campling

4.32

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

_______ 'Deeply thoughtful and compassionate ... Don't Turn Away is a fine book and is accessible … read more

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Lucy Spraggan

4.70

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J. Thomas Grant

4.54

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4.48

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3.97

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Ray Fysh

4.34

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Claire Douglas

4.09

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