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Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad - an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.

Explore the true story of a real-life Jane Austen heroine in this intimate portrait of a Regency family.

Every Contact Leaves a Trace is a professional and confessional account of cases and stories from a senior crime scene investigator.

Swimming with the Viking of Skye tells the inspiring story of Rich Waters, who overcame immense personal challenges through cold-water swimming off the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

14 Nights is a timely and essential conversation about how we understand homelessness in the UK. Compiled by Sheffield-based charity The Archer Project, the book is based on a blog documenting the CEO's two-week sleepout to raise awareness of the challenges surrounding rough sleeping.

Winner of the 2015 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction AwardThis is a sex book. It’s a book about fucking yourself, fucking someone you love, fucking strangers. It’s about saying words like cunt and come, and all manner of perverse verbiage. Mostly, it’s about speaking honestly about our bodies and our vulnerability, recognizing we’re all imperfect, worthy, and desirable.In this ten year anniversary edition of Hot, Wet & Shaking, Kaleigh Trace—disabled, queer, sex therapist—chronicles her journey from ignorance to bliss as she shamelessly discusses her sexual exploits and bodily negotiations. Trace’s memoirs and essays generously welcome the reader into her world, modelling a humour and radical self acceptance that can teach us all how to talk about sex, and then some.

THE PRISON OFFICER.CHALLENGES EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT PEOPLE IN PRISON. Life as a prison officer was Gen's calling. But when she took her first job in a men¿s prison at only 23, she was thrown in at the deep end.How did she find her place amongst gangsters, killers and traffickers?How would she navigate a mental health system on its knees?And how could she help the prisoners when most of the officers were burned out?From the wing kingpin who delivers his threats with a smile and a pat on the back, to the famous drill artist causing a stir on the wing, and from the `frequent flyer' for whom prison is the only home he's known to the young offender who gets a second chance, Gen reveals the incredible cast of characters behind the prison walls.In this searing account of her time behind bars, discover how Gen learned how to use her heart, her humour and sheer bloody-mindedness to make a difference.

The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky.

Having circumnavigated the world and also visited both Poles, Yosef Wosk, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, has been a progenitor of psychogeography. The title piece describes the time he almost died while climbing the Great Pyramid of Giza at midnight. The next day, he descended into an ancient cavern beneath the Great Pyramid where he took off all his clothes, alone, and meditated. Probably more people have walked on the moon.NAKED IN A PYRAMID is an unconventional book by an original thinker, a former rabbi who owns ancient Torah scrolls, a yellow star from the concentration camps, and Pee-Wee Herman's yellow bike. There is quite simply nobody like him. Yosef Wosk is a reclusive Lone Ranger who frequently helps others but remains a stranger. Here, for the first time, he has gathered a medley of observations to reveal his private world.

The chief value of the book is the picture of missionary labour it presents ¿ its trials and difficulties, its results, rewards and prospects. The book also contains some rare illustrations.

What does it take to report from conflict zones? What good is neutrality in the face of suffering, and how much difference can one person make?From her first journalistic assignment in Gaza to covering the Arab Spring in Egypt, Sherine Tadros searched for ways to change people's lives for the better.It wasn't until her life fell apart that she found the courage to pursue her true purpose. With compassion and verve, Tadros now shares her remarkable journey, from witnessing injustice to fighting it in the corridors of power. In probing the line between journalism and activism, her memoir Taking Sides demonstrates why stories matter - and how we can all use our voices to inspire meaningful change.

A real life story of a woman of courage and spontaneity - dramatic, traumatic and hilarious all at the same time.Full of adventures, it tells of an only child brought up in the post-war era - not an unkind upbringing, but well-disciplined and rather restrictive - a fight against constant opposition and a brave escape from that environment by an anxious young woman to freedom and independence.The book is confirmation of the need to seek out true friends.Opinions, based on personal experiences, are shared - some of them controversial subjects.

Motor Neurone Disease is a vile affliction that gradually robs the sufferer of all their independence and dignity, locking both invalid and carer into a death spiral. This book charts one couple's journey and its brutal physical and emotional impact. Despite being an always fatal condition, MND enjoysonly Cinderella status in respect of both research funding and charitable giving. As such all the royalties from this book will be donated to MND Association. It charts also the truism that fighting a terminal illness is only a part of your battle when you run up against those great organs of the British state; the local authority and the NHS. As it turned out my wife died before we got into any battles about funding, but there was no avoidingconflict with the NHS, with Covid and the response to it as an inescapable backcloth. The book charts the emotionally exhausting battle with bureaucrats, when our freedoms were surrendered to an unfeeling officialdom that at times seemed drunk on its power. I am reminded of the words of Benjamin Franklin; 'Those who choose safety over liberty deserve neither.' This book is a microcosm of how we were governed during the pandemic.

"Readers will be fascinated. . . . A haunting reminder of how precious democracy is."-Kirkus ReviewsThe inspiring true story of the Zalli family, forced to rebuild their lives in a new, uncertain landBorn in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened. In 1997, the government collapsed, plunging the country into anarchy and civil war.The twins' dream unraveled along with their homeland. Their parents had to find a way to leave and save their daughters' futures-not to mention their very lives.It took over two years for the Zalli family to escape. After several dangerous attempts, they finally made it to England, where the thirteen-year-old twins believed everything would be much better. They soon found out otherwise. Now refugees, with little more than the clothes on their backs, the girls were mercilessly bullied and constantly afraid they would be sent back to Albania and their parents would be sent to jail.Still, the twins persevered and learned how to navigate their harsh new reality. When tragedy struck yet again, threatening what they held most dear, the girls had to come to terms with the high price they had all paid to survive.In Good Morning, Hope, Argita and Detina share their harrowing story of courage and resilience. It was the strength of their family, particularly the sisters' unbreakable bond as twins, that nurtured and sustained them throughout their perilous ordeal.