Memoirs Books
Caitlin Press Born Out of This
Book SynopsisChristine Lowther''s first collection of essays, follows her journey from the unutterable loss of her mother to the discovery of her own poetic voice through deep reflection and her intimate connection to the coastal rainforest. Lowther looks back on her mother''s poetry and activism. She recalls the day the police arrested her father, and the indifferent beauty surrounding that life-changing moment. Tumbling through the years that follow, Lowther searches for her ownidentity-foster homes, punk rock concerts, activism and wanderings in Europe fill her hours but leave her searching. Ultimately she is drawn back to the forests and coast of her home. With remarkable poetic vision, Chris weaves her words and her mother''s poetry into the landscape, until language and land are inseparable. She describes the waning days of spawning salmon: barely submerged, the dark grey still-living move slowly among the dead, except for sudden splashes, bursts of energy, pinnacles of desperation. Nothing is simple in this dense, temperate jungle, and even this routine tragedy renews: This landscape of gore nourishes and fertilises the trees and berry bushes. With over twenty years of poetic devotion to Clayoquot Sound, Christine Lowther entrances readers through the stunning vividness of her writing, profound reflections on our place in the natural world and its ultimate indifference to us: We humans stand between forest and ocean like acupuncture needles, feeling the world pulsing with its endless cycles. Steeped in the immense beauty of the coastal rainforest, this indifference is strangely reassuring.
£13.29
Mage Publishers Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran
Book Synopsis
£22.49
Women's Intuition Worldwide Bigger Than All The Night Sky: A Memoir
Book SynopsisYou are in good company. For decades, Energy Spirituality pioneer Rose Rosetree shared the same yearning to understand herself and her greater purpose. She shares that unforgettable story in this book -- a multi-layered, coming-of-age memoir designed to help you see your own sacred search through the lens of hers. Spanning her life from birth to age 23, you will follow every step of Rose''s halting, stumbling journey of spiritual awakening-a journey replete with ever more colourful characters and vignettes, including... Rose discovering her purpose at age five in the operating room, and promptly forgetting in for decades. her teenage bedroom featuring the pin-up image of... Picasso''s eyes. Her one-on-one encounters with Timothy Leary and Ram Dass. Becoming a highly insecure (yet inspired) TM initiator. Moving Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to tears. As Rose describes, you and everyone on the planet had a Planning Meeting before you were born, where Divine input shared your life purpose. Uncovering that purpose is not easy, but all authentic spiritual awakening can help, and Rose''s discoveries leave you plenty of clues. The book employs a gradually-maturing-voice style of writing as Rosetree herself evolves into her first job as a spiritual teacher. With its myriad teaching tales and universal truths -- this one-of-a-kind life chronicle will resonate on many levels, while serving as a potent touchstone for your own spiritual journey.
£999.99
Larson Publications Poet's Daughter: Malek o'Shoara Bahar of Iran &
Book SynopsisThey called it Paradise, their beautiful home just outside old Tehran, and nurtured there a close bond of mutual love and respect for intellectual freedom. It was a magnet for leading thinkers and activists, who visited regularly for conversation with their best living poet and tireless champion of democracy, human rights, and women''s empowerment -- Malek o''Shoara Bahar. Then one morning the children watched in horror as police dragged him away . . . Intimate and emotionally engaging, this powerful memoir introduces Americans to the high-profile Iranian cultural hero Malek o''Shoara Bahar -- whose freedom poem Morghe Sahar (Bird of Dawn) is sung regularly with great passion at rallies for human rights and the empowerment of women throughout Iran. Bahar (1882-1951) tuned his political idealism and vast poetic gifts to Iranian''s deepest feelings, championing democracy, freedom, and social justice -- for which Reza Shah rewarded him with regular prison stays and the attempted ostracisation of himself and his family. He is revered internationally by progressive Iranians and celebrated as Iran''s best poet of the 20th century, many say of the past 500 years. Bahar''s beloved daughter begins with moving reminiscences of her childhood and youth with him in Iran and later in Switzerland, replete with the charms and sensory delights of Tehran in the 1930s and 1940s, and punctuates the story with dozens of Bahar''s poems as they are written. Then we see Parveneh carry his spirit forward into her own work as a progressive activist in the USA -- setting an inspiring example not only for Iranian women but for women throughout the world.
£21.59
Simon And Schuster Group USA Lifes Too Short to Go So Fcking Slow
Book Synopsis
£17.09
Pointed Leaf Press Jorie: The Extraordinary Life of Jorie Butler
Book Synopsis
£67.50
Pointed Leaf Press Mohammad, My Mother and Me
Book Synopsis
£18.52
Lanternfish Press The Mason House
Book SynopsisAfter her father's untimely death, Theresa faced a rocky and unstable childhood. But there was one place she felt safe: her grandmother's house in Mason, a depressed former copper mining town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Gram's passing leaves Theresa once again at the mercy of the lasting, sometimes destructive grief of her Ojibwe mother and white stepfather. As the family travels back and forth across the country in search of a better life, one thing becomes clear: if they want to find peace, they will need to return to their roots. The Mason House is at once an elegy for lost loved ones and a tale of growing up amid hardship and hope, exploring how time and the support of a community can at last begin to heal even the deepest wounds.
£17.09
WiDo Publishing Through Dangerous Doors: A Life at Risk
Book Synopsis
£19.95
Mage Publishers An Encounter with Dylan Thomas
Book SynopsisThis book is part of a series of Iranian Studies publications made possible by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University. Abadan, 1951. Iran and Britain are bracing for battle over the continued British monopoly of Iran''s oil. Twenty-nine-year-old Ebrahim Golestan, who was to become a towering figure in Iranian cinema and literature, encounters Dylan Thomas, the famous Welsh poet, who died two years later at the age of thirty-nine from bronchial disease and pneumonia. More for his celebrity than an intimate knowledge of the subject, Thomas had been sent to Iran by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company to write a script for a propaganda film about the company''s supposedly salutary role in the country. But for a few hours, Golestan and Thomas pause amidst the escalating standoff between their two countries and speak candidly about poetry, history, philosophy, and the perils of translation. Published here for the first time is the English translation (with facing pages in the original Persian) of Golestan''s unflinching portrayal of that encounter, revealing, all too clearly, how unsuited Thomas was for the task in hand. Accompanying the translation is an account of Thomas''s time in Iran, written by Abbas Milani, Director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University, together with Alina Utrata, a Ph.D. candidate and Gates Cambridge scholar. Based on the poet''s letters, journals, and archival material in England and Wales, it helps to shed further light on an episode long shrouded in mystery and plagued by controversy. Publication of this book coincides with the hundredth birthday in October 2022 of Ebrahim Golestan. To mark the occasion, Professor Milani has included a personal and erudite introductory essay on Golestan''s life and work, examining his pioneering approach to film and his important contribution to Iranian literature, despite living in exile for most of his adult life. With a filmography and selected bibliography of the works by or about Golestan, this multifaceted volume offers not only a striking commentary on Iranian arts, politics, and history.
£44.19
Mage Publishers Simorgh
Book Synopsis
£999.99
Lucid House Publishing LLC The Box Must Be Empty: A Memoir of Complicated
Book Synopsis
£15.30
Cameron & Company Inc Mutha: Stuff and Things
Book SynopsisA collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D’Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D’Onofrio’s mind produces when on idle, when he is not thinking about servicing a story. His words are, in the purest sense, ideas that fall unexpectedly upon his head, “like an apple from a tree—dropping all at once,” though less about gravity and Newton’s apples, and more about levity. D’Onofrio’s thoughts and images—presented here in all their uninhibited glory—are humorous, honest, abundant, raw, and unfiltered. And all exceedingly enjoyable. The unique design—a paperback with flaps and Chinese binding, all contained in a full-color, hardcover slipcase—offers the book an artistic, collectible feel.
£23.75
Sagging Meniscus Press Revelation at the Food Bank
£16.19
Sagging Meniscus Press Teeth
Book Synopsis
£11.39
Upperroom Big Jesus: Stories of Faith That Expose the Boxes
Book Synopsis
£15.15
Greenleaf Book Group LLC Home Inside the Globe
Book SynopsisA memoir taking you to far-flung places across the globe and the inner realms of the soul.Home Inside the Globe is an invitation to awaken as individuals so that we can fully participate in creating a better world for all people.
£23.85
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of
Book Synopsis
£11.10
Simon & Schuster Blood Orange Night: A Memoir of Insomnia,
Book SynopsisBrain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence—and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use—that chills to the bone” (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines—a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan—and increases her dosage regularly. Following her doctor’s orders, Melissa takes the pills night after night until her body begins to shut down. Only when she collapses while holding her daughter does Melissa learn that her doctor—like so many others—has over-prescribed the medication and quitting cold turkey could lead to psychosis or fatal seizures. Benzodiazepine addiction is not well studied, and few experts know how to help Melissa as she begins the months-long process of tapering off the pills without suffering debilitating, potentially deadly consequences. Each page thrums with the heartbeat of Melissa’s struggle—how many hours has she slept? How many weeks old are her babies? How many milligrams has she taken? Her propulsive writing crescendos to a fever pitch as she fights for her health and her ability to care for her children. “Propulsive, poetic” (Shelf Awareness), and immersive, this “vivid chronicle of suffering” (Kirkus Reviews) and redemption shines a light on the prescription benzodiazepine epidemic as it reaches a crisis point in this country.Trade Review“In this raw and captivating debut, journalist Bond chronicles her volatile descent into a benzodiazepine addiction... Pairing her unsparing candor with the same deep compassion she finds in the physician who helped her level out, Bond’s narrative casts a burning light onto the hazards of overprescribing and the threat it poses to vulnerable people. This cautionary tale stuns.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)“A harrowing memoir about a class of drugs as dangerous as opioids… Bond’s sharp critique of big pharma and the broken American health care system sounds an urgent alarm. A vivid chronicle of suffering.” —Kirkus Reviews“Bond's story, with lines like ‘the blood orange night turns red and screams through my eyes,’ is an eloquent cautionary tale.” —Booklist “A page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence – and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use – that chills to the bone.” —Nylon “Deeply personal insight into the ongoing benzodiazepine epidemic.” —AV Club“In her propulsive, poetic memoir, Blood Orange Night, Bond narrates her experience in harrowing detail… Told with a journalist's commitment to fact and a poet's touch.” —Shelf Awareness“An engaging testament to the powers of self-advocacy and resilience written with lyrical clarity and heart. This cautionary tale will help many understand how prescription drug dependency can happen and the strength and courage required to overcome it. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal“There is a line in this evocative memoir that I will not forget, for it so perfectly sums up the effect that benzodiazepines have had on millions of lives: ‘Benzos are the thief that steals everything you own a piece at a time.' In Blood Orange Night, Melissa Bond writes of the thief that crept into her life with the narrative skills of a fine novelist.” —Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America“Blood Orange Night is a beautifully written and exceptionally moving firsthand account of Melissa Bond’s struggle with addiction to benzodiazepines. It should be read by anyone considering taking or prescribing medication for insomnia.” —Irving Kirsch, PhD, author of The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth“This is the best-written and most immersive personal story on benzos that I have read. Melissa Bond summarizes the benzodiazepine crisis that is invisibly growing in the shadow of the opioids when she writes: ‘Benzos dismantle the brain over time. Instead of a swift and sudden death by overdose, there is a slow slide into disability.’ Immersed in her deeply personal story and peppered with pulsating prose, Blood Orange Night shows the terrifying but not uncommon consequences of using these drugs long-term as prescribed.” —Bernard Silvernail, Co-founder and President, The Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices“Blood Orange Night has it all: sex, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, brutal addiction that’s not addiction, and outright beauty (not necessarily in that order). There’s also a hilarious kiddo with Down Syndrome lighting the book from the inside, but he’s just the cherry on top of a magnificent cake of a book. If we were at a dinner party together and you asked me about it, I’d tell you to get the thing; get this book now and devour it. It’s that good.” —Stephanie Wilder Taylor, author of Sippy Cups are not for Chardonnay“With the unblinking eye of a journalist and the highly attuned heart of a poet, Melissa Bond brilliantly lays out the abyss prescribed benzodiazepine tranquilizers opened in her life…Blood Orange Night cuts to the bone. Here, truly, is hell on earth, and I can’t help but be awed by the strength and perseverance Bond manifested to emerge intact for her own sake and for that of her children.” —Matt Samet, author of Death Grip
£9.49
Caitlin Press Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired
Book Synopsis
£13.49
Caitlin Press Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity & Ideas
Book SynopsisIn 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to celebrate her birthday, where she experiences an odd compulsion to see an exhibit on the invention of military camouflage. Within the first five minutes of her visit, her lifelong feeling of being aberrant reveals its source: she had never learned the art of camouflage. This marked the beginning of this book. Taking the name Oscar, she embarks on an intimate, nine-year quest by telling her story as a person of between. As Oscar, she is able to make sense of her self and the culture that shaped her. She traces this experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest, through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life. In 1984, she and her lover wrote lesbian erotic love poetry collections in dialogue with one another, the first and only tandem collections on this subject in English Canada. After the two split, she experienced years of unacknowledged exclusion from a community in which she thought she belonged. In the process of writing Oscar''s story, Warland considers our culture''s rigid, even violent demarcations as she becomes at ease with never knowing what gender she will be addressed as: In Oscar''s daily life, when encountering someone, it goes like this: some address her as a male; some address her as a female; some begin with one and then switch (sometimes apologetically) to the other; some identify Oscar as lesbian and their faces harden, or open into a momentary glance of arousal; some know they don''t know and openly scrutinise; some decide female but stare perplexedly at her now-sans-breast chest; some are bemused by or drawn to or relate to her androgyny; and for some none of this matters. A contemporary Orlando, this book extends beyond the author''s personal narrative, pushing the boundaries of form, and by doing so, invents new ways to see ourselves.
£13.29
Caitlin Press Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer
Book Synopsis
£13.49
Caitlin Press Voice in the Wild: A Memoir
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Caitlin Press Dancing in Gumboots: Adventure, Love &
Book SynopsisAfter the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories. The 1970s was a time of intense cultural shifts for women all over North America. Freedom from traditional gender roles and expectations encouraged widespread relocation of young women seeking adventure and meaning, often migrating from urban to rural locations. The agricultural area of the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island offered a unique opportunity to these young women. Dancing in Gumboots collects the stories of thirty-two women who traveled from around North America to Vancouver Island, eventually settling in and around the Comox Valley. The young women who chose the agricultural Vancouver Island area to make their homes, showcase the personal challenges and struggles arising from such radical change.
£14.39
Caitlin Press A Bright and Steady Flame: The Story of Aging and
Book SynopsisIn 1974, after escaping an abusive marriage, Luanne Armstrong struggled with poverty and caring for four small children. During this time, the author and Sam Moore began their friendship; they were both young, single parents in crisis, and needed to change their lives. They supported each other through the child-rearing years, careers, and environmental, peace and feminist work. Their friendship endured and strengthened during the colourful, sometimes strange, but also community-altering movements that rocked the seventies and eighties throughout BC: back-to-the-landers, draft dodgers, hippies, drugs, plus political movements for peace, feminism, and equality. Now in their later years, they are again both facing an identity crisis, and, again, they do so together, their long friendship a source of immense strength and comfort. This book delves into the hardships of aging, grief and pain, and how friendships can sustain all of us. A Bright and Steady Flame gives insight into how deep and powerful a friendship can be. Armstrongs new book speaks to our compelling human need and ability to build long-lasting community. This is a love story that celebrates, for all people, the solace that true friendship can provide.
£13.49
Otago University Press West Island: Five twentieth-century New
Book Synopsis
£18.90
Otago University Press Every morning, so far, I'm alive: A memoir
Book Synopsis
£17.09
Otago University Press The Paper Nautilus
Book Synopsis
£17.10
Otago University Press Bus Stops on the Moon
Book Synopsis
£18.00
Boulder Books Tales from the Buccaneer Lodge
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Boulder Books Sick in Bed Across Two Chairs, with My Feet out
Book SynopsisGrandpa Pike may not have seen it all, but he has a lifetime of encounters-both serious and humourous-from his life in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia that make for terrific reading. Whether it''s relating the magic of making firewood, the joy of owning a century--old parlour organ, or relating the frugal way of life within rural communities of his childhood, Grandpa Pike provides a unique perspective on family, school, and work.
£14.39
Granville Island Publishing Luminous: An artists story as a guide to radical
Book SynopsisIn her memoir, artist Linda Frimer traces the layered histories of art and the artists of each era alongside her familys journey from Eastern Europe to the wilderness of western Canada. Born in Wells, and later spending her childhood in nearby Prince George, Frimers development as an artist was intimately impacted by her upbringing in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. It was here that Frimer developed a deep empathy and reverence for the First Nations of Canada, who were on this land thousands of years before European colonization. It was also here that Frimer first realized that nature and culture rose inseparable in creation, and that she had a responsibility to both. Throughout her book, Frimer strives to break down barriers between varying perspectives, while guiding the reader through a series of artistic exercises designed to cultivate imagination and to foster cultural and environmental healing through creativity. Accompanied by her acclaimed artwork, close examination of art history and theory, and exploration of Jewish spirituality, Frimer explores the power of colour, the symbols that help to give life meaning, and the importance of creativity in not only protecting, but ennobling existence. Luminous aims to inspire each of us to become the artist of our own story.
£999.99
Granville Island Publishing Hitting Your Stride: Achieving Life/Study Balance
Book SynopsisIn Hitting Your Stride, University of British Columbia graduate Nico Roselli offers a first-hand account of getting through the emotional challenges of higher education. Interspersing personal vignettes with lesson book activities, Roselli lays out a path to college success for introverts by promoting social networking and campus placemaking as grounding exercises, among many other actionable steps. From registration and course selection to mental health and self-care, money management, studying, and graduation requirements, Roselli emphasizes the transformative power of post-secondary education,to not only reach career goals, but to develop social skills and self-esteem. By treating the college opportunity itself as a vehicle for self-development, he demonstrates how this experience helps one to grow into healthy adulthood.
£14.39
Granville Island Publishing Meet Me in Cairo: Tales of Hitchin' in the '60s
Book SynopsisTwo best friends leave their comfortable and sheltered life in small-town British Columbia to explore the world together. Short on cash but high on youthful hubris, they make their way through Europe, then to North Africa, then further on to the Middle East, and finally back home through Europe once more on two dollars a day. Meet Me in Cairo offers a rare first-hand account of world historical moments, such as post-independence Algeria, pre-1967 War Jerusalem, and a divided Berlin, by two ragtag hitchhikers on the journey of a lifetime.
£13.49
Otago University Press Come Back to Mona Vale: Life and death in a
Book Synopsis
£18.00
Otago University Press Notes on Womanhood
Book Synopsis
£15.20
Otago University Press Always Going Home
Book Synopsis
£18.00
Otago University Press Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station
Book Synopsis
£24.30
Otago University Press Robert Lord Diaries
Book Synopsis
£18.90
Otago University Press The Twisted Chain
Book SynopsisNot knowing if your dad will live through the night is not something that any young son or daughter should ever have to endure. I experienced this nightmare more times than I care to remember.' In the winter of 1969, a 14-year-old Whangarei schoolboy called Keg went to a weekend rugby tournament and came home with a sore throat. Soon he was bedbound with a blazing fever, painful wrists, elbows and knees, and most worrying of all damage to his heart. He had been diagnosed with rheumatic fever, and his life was changed forever. Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory autoimmune disease, usually contracted in childhood. It starts with a sore throat; left untreated it can cause serious, lifelong damage to the heart. Despite its status as a developed country, Aotearoa New Zealand has one of the highest rates of rheumatic fever in the world. More than 90 percent of the country's cases occur in Maori and Pasifika communities.Author and researcher Jason Gurney knows Keg's story intimately; he is Keg's son. In The Twisted Chain, Gurney describes living in the long shadow cast by this disease. He writes of emergency nighttime drives to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, of panicky hours waiting for medical help. He describes how these frighteningly vulnerable experiences sparked some of the questions that led him to a career in public health. ''I wanted'', he writes, ''to research the causes and effects of rheumatic fever. It was my way of fighting back against the illness that had changed the trajectory of my family's life''.The Twisted Chain chronicles the profound impact of rheumatic fever on individuals and whanau and critiques the sociopolitical decisions (or lack thereof) that enable this preventable disease to thrive in modern day Aotearoa New Zealand. It's a vital read and an urgent call for action because, as Gurney reminds us: ''Whenever anyone contracts rheumatic fever, it changes their life forever, as well as the lives of all who love them''.
£16.05
Tidewater Press Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam
£12.34
Tidewater Press Imagined Truths: Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet
£12.34
Massey University Press Adopted: Loss, love, family and reunion
Book Synopsis
£27.89
Massey University Press The Dark Dad
Book Synopsis
£26.09
Massey University Press Raiment: A Memoir
Book SynopsisPioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhoodto the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman.
£24.29
Everyman Among the Supporting Cast: Reminiscences and
Book SynopsisThis business book-cum-political and cultural memoir, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the revolution of one of the great retail dynasties of the world, will resonate with readers questioning our current malaise. As a fourth generation Sainsbury, Tim was the director responsible for the company's development programme from 1962 to 1974, a key period during which the radical change from counter service to self-service supermarkets took place. His retail insight and reflections, including on competition, management and remuneration, and the role of Government, will be especially relevant as we witness a new retail revolution and crisis on our high streets.Sainsbury's second calling was as a politician. This book has a foreword by Michael Heseltine, in which he writes that: 'Of particular interest to the political student will be Tim's reflections on the changes he lived through in Parliament itself. The working conditions there are unacceptable, there are too many MPs, and the increasing social pressures particularly from the internet are making it increasingly difficult to attract men and women of the calibre ministerial responsibility demands.'In Among the Supporting Cast, Sainsbury tells this story with warmth, wisdom and a self-deprecating sense of humour.
£18.00
Zuleika My Will: A Portrait of Love and Addiction
Book SynopsisAt what point does passion cross the border into addiction? When do our relationships with alcohol, drugs, work, food, sex, shopping, exercise or love become too much? Following the fatal heroin overdose of her boyfriend when she was just twenty-four, Nicola spiraled into the depths of grief. Her way out from it was to examine, profoundly and meticulously, the mysterious forces of addiction and the emotional vulnerability from which they grow. In this laceratingly honest and clear-sighted memoir, Nicola takes us on a vivid journey through her heart and mind, and the development of her personal perspective on life. She delves into the relationship with her adored but alcoholic father and examines how it shaped the way she loved others. My Will is not only a story of dependence, but also of the power of human connection - love, compassion, and intense care - and the roller-coaster ride of giving your all. It is a story of the human condition of fear, and of the struggle to let go of yourself to achieve acceptance. Nicola Vivian's intimate and heartfelt writing draws you into her world, and gently encourages you to examine your own view of reality and recurring cycles of behaviour.Trade Review'A roller-coaster ride which kept me gripped: not only does Vivian find her own value as a writer of rare lyricism, fluency, and wisdom, but we her readers find our value too. Unputdownable’ Rachel Kelly, writer, mental campaigner and author of Sunday Times bestseller Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me — My Journey Through Depression. ;'A triumphant combination of visceral emotion and powerful writing. Vivian approaches her subjects – addiction, grief and unconditional love – from many directions, creating a remarkable kind of literary cubism. Deeply moving, funny and shocking, I have not read anything quite like it' Bestselling novelist David Ambrose. ;'A great journey – and so harrowing' Ruby Wax. ;'A compelling account of addiction, its effects and consequences, told with considerable sympathy and vividly expressed ... the father, the lover and the journey of the remarkable author will touch so many lives' Hugo Vickers. ;'Honest, lucid and full of psychological and emotional insight, this is a fascinating if highly troubling read' The Lady. 'Nicola Vivian learnt an agonising form of love from her alcoholic father and her drug addict boyfriend – and it nearly drove her insane' The Oldie.
£17.24
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Noche Triste: A Memoir of Anorexia
Book SynopsisIn Noche Triste ("Sad Night"), Robert Radin explores his struggles with anorexia in the 1980s. He also examines the history of self-starvation - its roots in rituals of religious purification, its development into an entertainment craze, its use as a tool of resistance - and, in the process, forces us to reconsider what it means to have anorexia. As his starving becomes an increasingly political act and he ventures to Mexico, alone, alienated from loved ones, we realize he's in the grip of something dangerous that neither he, nor we, fully understand. Written in exquisite prose, Noche Triste is a devastating, revelatory chronicle of a complex illness.
£17.10
