In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist’s travels through the history of mental illness
By: Brendan Kelly
3.41
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Who is ‘mad’? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, …
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1. In The Psychiatrist's Chair
By: Anthony Clare
4.15
Format: 275 pages,
Contains 12 interviews from the BBC Radio 4 series, "In The Psychiatrist's Chair", with additional … read more
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2. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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3. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets
By: Dawn French
3.87
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more
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4. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
5. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)
By: Ann Cleeves
3.40
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more
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6. The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe is te… read more
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"Never try to reach a conclusion before you reach the conclusion."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said"-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"We have always asked too much of women in this country. They hold up the sky on their shoulders."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
"People had to be left to make their own mistakes, even if the rest of us could see quite clearly the dangers that lay ahead."-Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #22)
7. Karma: My Autobiography
By: Boy George
3.62
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… 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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- psychology
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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- psychology
11. 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
- psychology
12. 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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- nonfiction
- psychology
13. The God Desire
By: David Baddiel
3.69
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, hum… read more
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- nonfiction
"But also, the cynic may have to accept something else. That he, as a human, is not exceptional. He might have to accept that perhaps, when you look at how animals, certainly mammals, behave – how the…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Martin Amis once said, of death, that ‘after forty, it’s a full-time job looking the other way’. I sometimes wonder if, at any adult age, it’s also a full-time job – although a less conscious one – l…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Some religious ideas may be on the decline, but not, I would say, human exceptionalism. Fewer people might believe in God than they used to, yet, although veganism is on the rise, most of us are stil…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
"Because another thing we look away from, in the killing of animals, is just how much they are like us. One of the things the internet has done is circulate, on a vast scale, short films of animals be…"-David Baddiel, The God Desire
14. Worst Idea Ever
By: Jane Fallon
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Best friends tell each other everything. Or do they? Georgia and Lydia are so close, they're practi… read more
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15. The Vanishing of Margaret Small
By: Neil Alexander
4.22
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her i… read more
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16. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories
By: Chris Atkins
4.34
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more
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- nonfiction
17. The Darlings of the Asylum
By: Noel O'Reilly
3.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
To marry is madness. To escape is impossible. Noel O’Reilly returns with a gripping historical no… read more
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18. The Game
By: Scott Kershaw
3.55
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
To save their life, you have to play. Across the globe, five strangers receive a horrifying mess… read more
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19. The Trial of Lotta Rae
By: Siobhan MacGowan
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial… read more
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20. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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- nonfiction
21. In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist’s travels through the history of mental illness
By: Brendan Kelly
3.41
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Who is ‘mad’? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, … read more
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- nonfiction
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