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Johann Hari
Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions…
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Rick Morton
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a…
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Alice Chipkin ,Jessica Tavassoli
A unique and powerful graphic memoir of friendship, mental illness, and art
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Tara Westover
An extraordinary memoir about a woman’s discovery of education, its transformative power and the price she has to pay for it.
Magda Szubanski
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The foul-mouthed, hysterically funny, rip-roaring account of Fleabag, a twenty-something female struggling with being a woman today. Fleabag is an anti-heroine, a refreshingly unique example of today’s modern woman. Feisty…
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Jill Stark
When You’re Not OK is an emotional first-aid kit for your body, mind, and soul, written by someone who’s been there too.
Sylvia Plath
The 50th Anniversary edition of one of the defining novels of the 20th century.
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Georgie Dent,Georgie Dent
The story of a nervous breakdown in slow motion, this is a must-read for anyone who sometimes feels close to the edge.
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Chris Fleming
A memoir of intoxication like no other, On Drugs explores Chris Fleming’s experience of drug addiction, which begins while he is a student before escalating into a life-threatening compulsion.
Chloe Higgins
A memoir of enormous power: of family, loss, and sexuality which recalls Kate Holden, Fiona Wright or Sarah Krasnostein.
Nathan Filer
A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to his Costa Book of the Year Award-winning The Shock of the Fall.
Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller…
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there…
Jenny Lawson
The poignant and hilarious new memoir by the internationally bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened.
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…
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Vicki Laveau-Harvie
This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know.
Andrew Solomon
Like Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression.
Melissa Broder
So sad today? Many are. Melissa Broder is too. How and why did she get to be so sad? And should she stay sad?
Allie Brosh
Hyperbole and A Half is a blog written by a 20-something American girl called Allie Brosh. She tells fantastically funny, wise stories about the mishaps of her everyday life, with…
Nicola Redhouse
After the birth of her first child, Nicola Redhouse experiences an unrelenting anxiety that quickly overwhelms her. Her immense love for her child can’t protect her from the dread that…
Megan Blandford
I’m Fine (and other lies) is a touching true story of motherhood: the challenges it presents, and the hope that can be found within it.
Jessica Friedmann
In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays…
Teresa Wong
A poignant graphic memoir about postpartum depression and the complexities of new motherhood.
Amra Pajalic
Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St…
Justin Heazlewood
Told with youthful exuberance, Get Up Mum is a wildly endearing, entertaining and incredibly powerful memoir about love, family, and coming-of-age.
Esme Weijun Wang
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
