The boy with big decisions
£7.99It’s Sliding Doors for middle grade as an indecisive boy makes aset of choices which propel him down different story pathways.
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The boy in the suit
£7.99A beautifully told, sensitive, often funny and very moving storythat shines a light on families in tough circumstances. For fansof Jacqueline Wilson, Helen Rutter and The Boy at the Back of theClass.
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The diving-bell and the butterfly
£8.99One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written.
The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France.
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DIVING-BELL &_4TH ESTATE MA PB
£8.99One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written.
One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.
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Upside
£8.99The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralysed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie ‘Les Intouchables’ (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies of all time. Now, ‘The Upside,’ the American remake of ‘Les Intouchables,’ starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman is released in 2019. Abdel Sellou and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo were two people marginalised by society: Sellou a wisecracking, unemployed immigrant, just out on parole; Pozzo a man born to wealth and privilege, recently paralysed from the neck down after a paragliding accident. How they came to help each other, and the unlikely friendship that became a lifeline for them both, is an uplifting story that’s now been told and retold around the world.
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Letter To Louis
£8.99This is a memoir about hope – hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I’ve never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I’ve been up to. I’ve never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write how it is in order to give others a greater understanding of disability and caring. And to be totally honest, I wanted to write something that would make people consider being Louis’s friend. So here is me introducing you: Louis, this is your story. Readers, this is my son.
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Finch in My Brain
£9.99When film producer Martino Sclavi began experiencing intense headaches, he attributed them to his frenetic lifestyle. As it turned out, he had grade 4 brain cancer and was given 18 months to live. After undergoing brain surgery – while awake – Martino found he had lost the ability to recognise words. His response was to close his eyes and begin to move his fingers across the keyboard to write this, an account of life before diagnosis and since. Defying all predictions Martino is still very much alive, words read out to him by the monotone of a computerised voice he calls Alex. But he must now live in a new way. This book – that he has written but cannot read – charts the effects of his experience: on his relationship with his young son, his marriage, his work and with himself.
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Letter To Louis
£12.99This is a memoir about hope – hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I’ve never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I’ve been up to. I’ve never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write how it is in order to give others a greater understanding of disability and caring. And to be totally honest, I wanted to write something that would make people consider being Louis’s friend. So here is me introducing you: Louis, this is your story. Readers, this is my son.
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Last Act Of Love
£7.99A powerful, timely and incredibly moving memoir in the bestselling tradition of Blake Morrison, Joan Didion and Ruth Picardie.
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Last Act Of Love
£14.99A powerful, timely and incredibly moving memoir in the bestselling tradition of Blake Morrison, Joan Didion and Ruth Picardie
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Touching Distance
£18.99‘Touching Distance’ is an extraordinary, honest and powerful account as James Cracknell and his wife confront the choices he has made in his life, and their consequences.