Spectacular new edition of the best selling exploration of fungi now illustrated with more than 100 full colour images selected by the author to showcase this wondrous and varied lifeform in all its astonishing glory.
On Wednesday 22nd of June Julia Samuel will be talking in conversation with Natasha Lunn at St Mary’s, Primrose Hill – see here for details on how to buy tickets.
Why do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families drive us mad? And how can even small changes greatly improve our relationships?In Every Family Has a Story, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turns from her acclaimed work with individuals to draw on her sessions with a wide variety of families, across multiple generations. Through eight beautifully told and insightful case studies, she analyses a range of common issues, from loss to leaving home, and from separation to step-relationships, and shows how much is, in fact, inherited — and how much can be healed when it is faced together. Exploring the relationships that both touch us most and hurt us most, including the often under-appreciated impact of grandparents and siblings, and incorporating the latest academic research, she offers wisdom that is applicable to us all.
Her twelve touchstones for family well-being — from fighting productively to making time for rituals — provide us with the tools to improve our relationships, and to create the families we wish for. This is a moving and reassuring meditation that, amid trauma and hardship, tells unforgettable stories of forgiveness, hope and love.
The pioneering film maker looks back over his life, from his impoverished rural Bavarian childhood through assorted jobs to celebrated worldwide renown.
From the bestselling author of Persiana, a new collection of delicious dishes both sweet and savoury – all with the author’s trademark flair for enhancing flavour.
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Care assistant Justine, 21, and 100 year-old Hélène bond over writing Hélène’s life story, in which they revist her years running a café in rural France and her enduring love affair with a wounded soldier. Beguiling, full of charm and pathos.
A powerful, heartwarming story of two sisters found curled up tight with the foxes at the edge of the wildlands. How can they discover where they are from?
Age guide: 7-12
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Extraordinary story of Sam Bankman-Fried, dubbed ‘the Gatsby of the crypto world’, who made a fortune in the recent crypto frenzy only to lose it all almost immediately.
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From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted.
Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting on the issues around the illness, Freeman details her experiences with anorexia, and how she overcame it. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story that will be profoundly helpful for those who suffer from an eating disorder, and those who desperately want to understand them.
A romantic comedy with a difference, narrated almost entirely by the bemused Andy, a hapless and not very successful comedian struggling to dea lwith a breakup. Very funny, very astute, and very honest.
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Todd is spotted on a beach by his former high-school bully Jack and braces himself for a tense encounter. But Jack is friendly, keen to inveigle himself in Todd and his son’s lives. An unsettling literary thriller on the theme of revenge, forgiveness, and fatherhood.
