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Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo.

'Girl, Woman, Other' follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends, and lovers, across the country and through the years.
Author: Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
453 pages ; 20 cm
1 reserve

13 copies

The flatshare / Beth O'Leary.

Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window.
Author: O'Leary, Beth
Published: London : Quercus, 2020.
394 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

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The beekeeper of Aleppo / Christy Lefteri.

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. On the way, Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is Mustafa, his cousin and business partner, who has started an apiary and is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls.
Author: Lefteri, Christy, 1980-
Published: London : Manilla Press, 2020.
377 pages : maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

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Think like a monk : train your mind for peace and purpose every day / Jay Shetty.

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast 'On Purpose', distils the timeless wisdom he learned as a practising monk into practical steps anyone can take every day to live a less anxious, more meaningful life.
Author: Shetty, Jay
Published: London : Thorsons, 2020.
xix, 328 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
6 reserves

Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 158.1092 - Onloan - Due: 25 May 2024 - C0000020487155

Not a life coach : push your boundaries, unlock your potential, redefine your life / James Smith.

Are your relationships working for you? James Smith is back to challenge everything you thought you knew about the path to fulfilment and happiness. With hard-hitting home truths and a helping of tough love, be prepared to re-set your outlook, redefine your goals and truly consider: What does success truly mean to you?
Author: Smith, James
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
304 pages ; 24 cm

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Because of you / Dawn French.

Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock - midnight. The old millennium turns into the new. In the same hospital, two very different women give birth to two very similar daughters. Hope leaves with a beautiful baby girl. Anna leaves with empty arms. Seventeen years later, the gods who keep watch over broken-hearted mothers wreak mighty revenge, and the truth starts rolling, terrible and deep, toward them all. The power of mother-love will be tested to its limits. Perhaps beyond.
Author: French, Dawn
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2020.
404 pages ; 23 cm

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The binding / Bridget Collins.

Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it.
Author: Collins, Bridget
Published: London : The Borough Press, 2019.
438 pages ; 23 cm

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The lido / Libby Page.

Rosemary has lived in Brixton all her life. But now everything she knows is changing - the library where she used to work has closed, the family fruit and veg shop has become a trendy bar, and her beloved husband George is gone. Kate has just moved and feels alone in a city that is too big for her. She's at the bottom rung of her career as a journalist on a local paper, and is determined to make something of it. So when the local lido is threatened with closure, Kate knows this story could be her chance to shine. And Rosemary knows it is the end of everything for her. Together they are determined to make a stand, to show that the pool is more than just a place to swim - it is the heart of the community. Together they will show the importance of friendship, the value of community, and how ordinary people can protect the things they love.
Author: Page, Libby
Published: London : Orion, 2019.
394 pages ; 20 cm

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Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams.

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's struggling. She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?
Author: Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-
Published: London : Trapeze, 2019.
392 pages ; 23 cm

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The bookshop on the shore / Jenny Colgan.

Zoe, a professional childcare worker, and single mother to Hari, four, who has selective mutism, is sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Then her ex-sister-in-law suggests she move to Scotland to help run a bookshop. There her path crosses that of Ramsay Urquart, a widower and antiquarian bookseller, who has a band of difficult children he can't manage. Can two very damaged people help heal each other?
Author: Colgan, Jenny
Published: London : Sphere, 2019.
409 pages ; 24 cm

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Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens.

How long can you protect your heart? For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
Author: Owens, Delia, 1949-
Published: London : Corsair, 2019.
370 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

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The fear bubble : harness fear and live without limits / Ant Middleton.

Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door. In prison, he was thrust into the unknown, cut off from friends and family, isolated with thoughts of failure and dread for his future. And at the top of Everest, in desperate, life-threatening conditions, he was forced to face up to his greatest fear, of leaving his children and wife without a father and husband. But fear is not his enemy. It is the energy that propels him. Thanks to the revolutionary concept of the 'Fear Bubble', Ant has learned to harness the power of fear and understands the positive force that it can become. Here Ant retells the story of his death-defying climb of Everest and reveals the concept of the 'Fear Bubble', showing how it can be used in our lives to help us break through our limits.
Author: Middleton, Anthony, 1981-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
342 pages ; 24 cm

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Pride and prejudice / based on the novel by Jane Austen.

'Penguin Readers' is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the eight levels follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2019.
80 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Penguin readers
1 reserve

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Red, white & royal blue / Casey McQuiston.

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius - his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Casey McQuiston's 'Red, White & Royal Blue' proves: true love isn't always diplomatic.
Author: McQuiston, Casey
Published: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2019.
432 pages ; 22 cm
2 reserves

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Five steps to happy / Ella Dove.

When struggling actress Heidi has a life-changing accident aged 32, her world falls apart. Stuck in hospital and unable to walk, her only companion is Maud, the elderly lady in the bed next to hers. Heidi misses her flatmate, her life, her freedom - surely 32 is too young to be an amputee? But when Maud's aloof but attractive grandson Jack pays a visit to the ward, Heidi realises that her life isn't over just because it's different. It might not look like the life she dreamed of, but it's the one she's got - and there's a lot she still wants to tick off her bucket list. With Jack at her side, will Heidi take the first step back to happiness? Or is there one more surprise still in store?
Author: Dove, Ella
Published: London : Trapeze, 2019.
viii, 322 pages ; 20 cm

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12 rules for life : an antidote for chaos / Jordan B. Peterson ; foreword by Norman Doidge ; illustrations by Ethan Van Sciver.

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.
Author: Peterson, Jordan B.
Published: UK : Allen Lane, 2018.
xxxv, 409 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
1 reserve

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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted - while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she's avoided all her life.
Author: Honeyman, Gail
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
385 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (3 reviews)

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Notes on a nervous planet / Matt Haig.

Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? How do we stay human in a technological world? How do we feel happy when we are encouraged to be anxious? After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks, these questions became urgent matters of life and death for Matt Haig. And he began to look for the link between what he felt and the world around him.
Author: Haig, Matt, 1975-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2018.
310 pages ; 19 cm

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The Madonna of Bolton / Matt Cain.

Charlie Matthews' love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life - until Auntie Jan - who everyone says looks like the blonde one out of Bananarama - gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called 'Lucky Star.' On his 9th birthday, Charlie discovers Madonna, and falls in love. And his obsession sees him through some tough times in life: being persecuted at school; fitting in at a posh university; a glamorous career in London; finding boyfriends; getting rid of boyfriends; growing up; and family heartbreak.
Author: Cain, Matt (Writer)
Published: London : Unbound, 2018.
xii, 398 pages ; 24 cm

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Sunny side up : a story of kindness and joy / Susan Calman.

Susan Calman's enthusiasm at being on Strictly Come Dancing was an inspiration to all of us. 'Dancing For Joy' aims to persuade people to be kinder to each other and spread more joy. These are extremely difficult and confusing times - people are cross and shouty. It's exhausting! But more than anything, people like Susan, people who don't hate other people, are apologising for the way that they think. Susan wants to make sure that they don't. That it's ok to love people, that kindness is something wonderful and brilliant and to bring on the joy. So the mission is simple. To get the nation to join her in not being negative. To bring back joy, kindness and community, to find that joy in the little things in life and defeat the hate and fear.
Author: Calman, Susan
Published: London : Two Roads, 2018.
289 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 23 cm

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A keeper / Graham Norton.

Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother's death, intent only on wrapping up that dismal part of her life. There is nothing here for her; she wonders if there ever was. The house of her childhood is stuffed full of useless things, her mother's presence already fading. And perhaps, had she not found the small stash of letters, the truth would never have come to light. 40 years earlier, a young woman stumbles from a remote stone house, the night quiet but for the tireless wind that circles her as she hurries further into the darkness away from the cliffs and the sea. She has no sense of where she is going, only that she must keep on.
Author: Norton, Graham, 1963-
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2018.
326 pages ; 23 cm

11 copies

Becoming / Michelle Obama.

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerising storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world.
Author: Obama, Michelle, 1964-
Published: London : Viking, 2018.
xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
1 reserve

12 copies

Calm : working through life's daily stresses to find a peaceful centre / Fearne Cotton.

A simple, gentle and visual guide to finding your inner calm, featuring Fearne's hand drawn illustrations throughout. In today's always on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time-out or mute the encircling 'noise'. It is easy to feel trapped in a frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from school, work or family life and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of social media. As a result, mental health illnesses are on the rise in every age group and more of us than ever before yearn for silence, peace and calm. As the ambassador for MIND, the UK's leading mental health charity, Fearne is passionate about helping others navigate the digital age healthily and happily.
Author: Cotton, Fearne, 1981-
Published: London : Orion Spring, 2018.
281 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm

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Plot 29 : a memoir / Allan Jenkins.

'Plot 29' is on a London allotment site where people come together to grow. It's just that sometimes what Allan Jenkins grows there, along with marigolds and sorrel, is solace.
Author: Jenkins, Allan (Food writer)
Published: London : 4th Estate, 2017.
xiii, 249 pages ; 23 cm

13 copies

Why mummy drinks : the diary of an exhausted mum / Gill Sims.

It is Mummy's 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like 'Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?' But Mummy does not want to go quietly into that good night of women with sensible haircuts who 'live for their children' and stand in the playground trying to trump each other with their offspring's extracurricular activities and achievements, and boasting about their latest holidays. Instead, she clutches a large glass of wine, muttering 'FML' over and over again. Until she remembers the gem of an idea she's had.
Author: Sims, Gill
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
344 pages ; 21 cm

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Overcoming panic : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

Panic attacks are recognised as one of the most serious forms of anxiety, and can become disabling. This guide explains both the physical and emotional symptoms, the common causes of this 'fear of fear', and how to master anxiety management techniques.
Author: Manicavasagar, Vijaya
2nd edition / Vijaya Manicavasagar and Derrick Silove.
Published: London : Robinson, 2017.
213 pages ; 20 cm.
Overcoming

21 copies

The keeper of lost things / Ruth Hogan.

Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners. But the final wishes of the Keeper of Lost Things have unforeseen repercussions which trigger a most serendipitous series of encounters.
Author: Hogan, Ruth, 1961-
Published: London : Two Roads, 2017.
307 pages ; 20 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

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A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles.

In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Author: Towles, Amor
Published: London : Windmill Books, 2017.
462 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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12 copies

The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life / Mark Manson.

A self-help guide for millennials-superstar blogger Mark Manson shows us how to accept our faults, discover just how much pain we can tolerate, and stop deluding ourselves so that we can be better, happier people.
Author: Manson, Mark
First edition.
Published: New York, NY : HarperOne, 2016.
vii, 212 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

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Reasons to stay alive / Matt Haig.

Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, this is more than a memoir: it is a book about making the most of your time on Earth.
Author: Haig, Matt, 1975-
Published: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2016.
254 pages ; 18 cm
Average rating: (2 reviews)

21 copies