Family and health

What Makes Women Happy

With her inimitable wit and insight, Fay Weldon offers her wisdom on the subject of female happiness and how to achieve it.

The Real Me is Thin

The hapless and hilarious tale of a life lived under the constant and ruthless reign of a chocolate biscuit…

Making the Cat Laugh

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One woman’s journal of single life on the margins.

A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’.

The Book of Dad

The Book that will forever define the essentially comic state of being, acting, looking, and sounding like a Dad.

The Emperor of All Maladies

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011

‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT

‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN

‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Manhood for Amateurs

Michael Chabon, author of WONDER BOYS and the Pulitzer Prize-wining THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, has written an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.

The Kiss: A Secret Life

From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father.

The Real Me is Thin

The hapless and hilarious tale of a life lived under the constant and ruthless reign of a chocolate biscuit…

Talk to the Hand

A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

Blaikie’s Guide to Modern Manners

A witty yet practical short guide to modern manners that, like Lynne Truss, takes a subject often treated in a stuffy, high-handed way and deals with it lightly and humorously.

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