When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In 'A Manual for Heartache' she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope.

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, 'Reasons to Stay Alive' is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

Three people, struggling to come to terms with great loss after the end of the war, search for peace in a small town's library in a heartbreaking novel of love and loss and the healing power of memory and words. In a small town on the land's edge, in the strange space at a war's end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story. In Thirroul, in 1948, people chase their dreams through the books in the railway's...

Through his incredibly popular podcast, Motivate Yourself, registered psychotherapist Richard Nicholls set out to cut through some of the myths and misconceptions about self-help and offer effective solutions to real-life problems. In his first book, Nicholls looks at the science behind what works and what doesn't when it comes to making ourselves happy. He discusses how little changes to our thoughts, emotions, lifestyle, attitude, self-esteem, health...

Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this audio approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective-explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only audiobook to provide an educated listener with a broad, scientific understanding of these topics, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes, such as hunger and taste, as...

In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith?s bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In The Choice, Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust...

Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It?s time for the switch ? Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen?s house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn?t offer many eligible gentlemen ? So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...

When Sara Davison's marriage broke down, she felt as though her life was over. It took every ounce of her strength to deal with the daily roller-coaster of raw emotions and the practical difficulties that make divorce one of life's most stressful experiences. Uncoupling is the guide Sara looked for - and couldn't find - at that time. Based on Sara's own experience of divorce and her work as a divorce coach and Master NLP practitioner, Uncoupling will...

Do you feel a sense of dread and indecision every time you get dressed? Are you constantly buying new clothes but still feel like you have nothing to wear? Then you need closet therapist Annmarie O?Connor. In The Happy Closet you will discover that your wardrobe is more than just a collection of clothes. It?s a deeply vulnerable space containing layers of old energy which, if not recognised, can create sartorial chaos. Here, Annmarie shares the psychological...

The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel.