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Sue Cleaver shares her experiences and life stories, reflects on how they made her feel and what she learned, and offers advice and tips for others who find themselves in similar situations. Are you a chronic overthinker, do you have anxiety, or suffer from self-doubt? Sue has been there, done that, and is still learning from it. Training as a therapist was only the start of her journey of self-discovery and at sixty she feels more empowered to live life to the full than ever before.

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. In 1812 Caroline embarked on a well-publicized affair with the poet Lord Byron—he was 24, she 26. Her phrase 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' became his lasting epitaph. Antonia Fraser's biography animates the life of 'a free spirit' who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know.

Dans ce second et dernier volume, Maxime de La Rocheterie poursuit le portrait de Marie‑Antoinette, du faste contraignant aux heures d’épreuves, au cœur d’un royaume gagné par l’inquiétude. Avec la précision d’un historien du XIXe siècle, il suit la reine dans le passage de la faveur à la controverse, entre vie privée et affaires d’État, échos de la cour et clameurs de la rue.

A young widow’s triumph over tragedy. Amy King had a sinking feeling as she reached for her ringing phone one November morning. With a single sentence, loss split her life into a before and after. “Mrs. King, your husband’s been in an accident.”

‘I was determined to break into the White House and, with the confidence of youth, I didn’t see how anyone was going to be able to stop me.’ So how did a small-town girl from Muncie, Indiana, end up an assistant to and favorite of the President, joining George H. W. Bush for early morning runs and on the White House tennis court? In this sparkling memoir, Annie Bracken takes listeners straight to the heart of the action. How do the powerful live on Capitol Hill?

You can survive something and still not know how to live afterward. Hurting Before Healing explores the fragile space between surviving trauma and learning how to heal. As Cassidy faces grief, addiction, identity, and the ghost of a love she can’t replace, she begins to realize that healing isn’t about forgetting the past. It’s about learning how to carry it—and choosing to stay.

What happens when an Evangelical pastor's daughter from Branson, Missouri moves to New York City? A collapse of identity that begins a journey to figure out faith, f *cking, and the 1%. With humor and raw honesty, God, Sex, and Rich People follows Mattie Jo as she takes off her purity ring, navigates public transportation, and tries to have good sex without hating herself.

In the whirlwind of a life that comes across like a twisted fairy tale, Janelle Alexis Flatt emerges from the wreckage of betrayal, addiction, and shattering heartbreak as a force of unapologetic resilience. From a childhood marked by instability and early trauma to building a thriving beauty empire while battling toxic relationships, a daughter's near-fatal spiral into drugs, and a marriage destroyed by brazen infidelity, she faces every hammer life swings—reality TV disasters, spiritual awakenings through sacred plant medicines, and a divorce war that exposes every scar.

Im März 2020 hatte Belle Burden mit ihren Kindern und ihrem Mann im Ferienhaus der Familie auf Martha's Vineyard Zuflucht vor der Pandemie gesucht. Dann, ohne Vorwarnung oder Erklärung, verkündete ihr Mann, mit dem sie seit zwanzig Jahren verheiratet war, dass er sie verlassen würde. Mit fünfzig steht plötzlich ihr ganzes Leben auf der Kippe. Auf schmerzhafte Weise lernt sie, sich zu behaupten und auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Nach und nach stellt sie fest, dass sie viel stärker ist, als sie es jemals erwartet hätte.

Vierzig Jahre fehlen zwischen Mutter und Tochter. Ein Leben, das niemand erklärt hat. Und eine Tochter, die erst spät begreift, dass man auch ohne Vergangenheit bleiben kann. Die letzten Jahre sind kein Neubeginn. Sie sind das, was übrig bleibt, wenn man aufhört zu warten und stehen bleibt. Wenn man sagt: Ich bin da. Und ich bleibe. Eine Geschichte über Nähe, die zu spät kommt und trotzdem zählt. Über das, was zurückkehrt, wenn man keine Zeit mehr hat.

What if the truest version of yourself has been waiting all along, quietly calling you home? Each of us is born with a HeartPrint, a unique blueprint for a life that feels true to us. Like DNA, your HeartPrint belongs only to you. It holds the design for the life that will bring you the greatest peace, contentment, and satisfaction. The more you live within your HeartPrint, the more fully you become yourself, and the more deeply you experience fulfillment. Over time, the complexities and traumas of life can disconnect us from this inner wisdom.

Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working next to a man described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.

Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller’s parents’ childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple’s experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply etched narrative that has earned the author such immense praise, Fuller expands on and offers new insights into her family’s remarkable trials and successes.

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culinary revolution.She arrived in England in 1949 when much of Britain was a culinary wasteland, married an Englishman, and stayed on.

Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Girls’ and the award-winning movie ‘Tiny Furniture’, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. “If I could take what I’ve learned and make one menial...

Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties. In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then.

This inspiring story about life, love, and Slimming World is a heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking account of single-mindedness, passion, and compassion. In it, Margaret Miles-Bramwell, OBE, shares the highs and lows of building a business on little more than belief, dogged determination, and a genuine desire to touch hearts and change lives.

Danielle has a safe, happy childhood growing up in West London, but her bright future fades as she turns her back on school for gang life and crime. Betrayed by the police after a brutal gang rape, she finds protection under the wing of organised criminals and falls in love with the local ‘top boy’. However, her allegiances bring terror to her doorstep when gun-toting rivals target her flat – and the authorities answer by taking away her baby. Heartbroken, Danielle spirals deeper into gang life and becomes a key player in a sprawling county lines operation.

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and...

Brought to you by Penguin. A SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French. Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with a career that has spanned nearly four...