Edition: Film Tie-in Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-23
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.38
Review Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery / Monarch Publications:
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 362.1981780092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £4.02
Review Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph Over Despair and Statistics / Broadway Books:
Publication date: 2005-02-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.06
Review Nature Cure / Chatto & Windus:
Publication date: 2007-01-25
Dewey code: 306.848
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.47
Review She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband / Avalon Group:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-09-06
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.33
Review The Step Child: A True Story of a Broken Childhood / Vermilion:
Publication date: 2002-12-12
Dewey code: 616
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.96
Review The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind / OUP USA:
Publication date: 2007-06-17
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.16
Review Family Court HELL / Pen Press Publishers:
Publication date: 1998-09-18
Price: £14.99
Review My Year Off / Picador:On July 28, 1995, Robert McCrum suffered a severe stroke at the age of 42. His thoughtful memoir chronicles the long, arduous process of recovery. Drawing on his own diaries and those of his wife, Sarah Lyall, (then the publishing columnist for the New York Times), McCrum presents a detailed portrait of the physical and psychological effects of a stroke. His speech was impaired and his left arm and leg were paralysed, but almost worse was the emotional havoc those disabilities wrought. As the hard-driving, hard-living editor of publishing house Faber & Faber, McCrum had defined himself for 20 years by what he did-now he was forced to ask himself who he was. He ruefully admits that his upbringing in the privileged British upper-middle class, traditionally suspicious of introspection, had ill prepared him for such a struggle, and he pays loving tribute to his American spouse's crucial role in his recovery. (Indeed, the excerpts from Lyall's diaries, which honestly reveal doubt, fear, and anger are among the book's most moving sections. ) Famous friends like Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje make appearances at McCrum's London hospital bedside, but Lyall is the narrative's heroine, and the hard-working staff of physical and speech therapists the invaluable supporting players. The author's lucid explanation of a stroke's medical aspects and thorough account of his slow progress toward nearly full recovery will inform and inspire other stroke victims, but at heart this is a touching marital love story and an exciting drama of personal rebirth. -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 795
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.65
Review High Stakes: How I Blew 14 Million Pounds / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: 1st American Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2005-12-19
Dewey code: 362.19685820092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.44
Review Cutting it Out: A Journey Through Psychotherapy and Self-harm / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Creator: John Sutherland
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1998-09-10
Dewey code: 818.5209
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.55
Review John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs (Oxford World's Classics) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Creator: Chris Anderson
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.63
Review The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright / Mainstream Publishing:
Authors
- Ewan MacKenna
- Oisin McConville
Dewey code: 796.33
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.66
Review The Gambler: Oisin McConville's Story / Mainstream Publishing:
Creator: "Beshlie"
Edition: Facsimile edition
Publication date: 2007-09-07
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.79
Review Smoke in the Lanes / University of Hertfordshire Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-04-18
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.43
Review The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic's Journey from Madness to Hope / Basic Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-15
Dewey code: 616.860092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.18
Review The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.66
Review Take Me to the River: A Wayward and Perilous Journey to the World Series of Poker / Atria Books:
Publication date: 2000-02-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.99
Review A Child Called It / Orion:David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care but not to David, her son, whom she referred to as "an It". This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule-no walking on the grass at school-but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel,The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system. Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love and Pelzer is an expert witness. -Christine Buttery.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-05-11
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review Teacher on the Run / Short Books, London:
Creator: Chris Anderson
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-01
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.63
Review The Billy Boy: The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright / Mainstream Publishing:
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