Sociology: family & relationships

  • Big Friendship

    £9.99

    From the hosts of hit podcast Call ‘Your Girlfriend’ comes the bible on how to keep each other close. You meet – and there’s a spark. You want to know everything about each other. You spill your secrets, you spend all weekend together, you go on holiday. You fight, and it’s gut-wrenching. You see each other through the worst times and the best. You know each other better than parents, siblings, lovers. You stay in touch when miles apart. You will always be there. This is the most important relationship of your life. This is your Big Friendship. A close, fulfilling friendship is the key to happiness – everyone from Greek philosophers to Instagram influencers will agree. Telling the story of their own ten-year, complex, loving friendship, Aminatou and Ann share their hard-won wisdom with honesty, hilarity and compassion.

  • Duck, Duck, Dad?

    £6.99

    When Ralph stumbles across an egg one day, he decides that the best thing for him to do is walk right on by. But, CRACK! the egg hatches, right then and there! What’s inside? A very cute, very fluffy little duckling. And though Ralph isn’t sure he wants a duckling, the duckling is definitely sure it wants Ralph!

  • Three Women

    £9.99

    All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?

  • Three Women

    £16.99

    All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?

  • Parent Talk

    £14.99

    Are you tired of arguing with your children? Do you find you’re repeating the same messages over and over? Or perhaps you’ve given up trying to communicate with your kids at all? In this frank and open book, parenting expert of over three decades, and New York Times bestselling author Dr Wendy Mogel offers an essential and realistic guide of how to take steps to transform your relationship with your child.

  • Sweet Little Lies

    £7.99

    What happens when the trust has gone? Cat Kinsella was always a daddy’s girl. Until the summer of 1998 when she sees her father flirting with 17-year-old Maryanne Doyle. When Maryanne later disappears and Cat’s father denies ever knowing her, Cat’s relationship with him is changed forever. 18 years later, Cat is now a Detective Constable with the Met. Called to the scene of a murder in King’s Cross, she discovers a woman’s body: Alice Lapaine has been found strangled, not far from the pub that Cat’s father runs. When evidence links Alice to the still missing Maryanne, all Cat’s fears about her father resurface. Could he really be a killer? Determined to confront the past and find out what really happened to Maryanne all those years ago, Cat begins to look into the case. But when you dig into the past you don’t always like what you find.

  • Babies

    £3.50

    ‘Vintage Minis’ bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

  • Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

    £11.99

    Most forms of identity within families are passed on from one generation to the next, but less explored are ‘horizontal identities’, those shared across communities between people with an uncommon trait. Andrew Solomon spoke to 200 families to record their experience of topics including dwarfism, deafness, transgender, prodigies, and more.

  • Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love

    £20.00

    Most forms of identity within families are passed on from one generation to the next, but less explored are ‘horizontal identities’, those shared across communities between people with an uncommon trait. Andrew Solomon spoke to 200 families to record their experience of topics including dwarfism, deafness, transgender, prodigies, and more.

  • Blood Horses

    £12.99

    One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise – ‘I was at Secretariat’s Derby, in ’73. That was – just beauty, you know?’ John Jeremiah Sullivan didn’t know, but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby. The result is ‘Blood Horses,’ a wise, humorous memoir exploring the relationship between man and horse and the relationship between a sportswriter’s son and his late father.