From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life
When Luce Brett became incontinent at the age of 30, after the birth of her first son, she felt her life had ended. She also felt scared, upset, embarrassed and shocked. How the hell had she ended up there, the youngest woman in the waiting room at the incontinence clinic?
Written by a leading neuroscientist, Splitting tells the fascinating true story about headaches, and the secrets they reveal about your brain and overall health.
The Age of Ageing Better? takes a radically different view of what our ageing society means. Dr Anna Dixon turns the misleading and depressing narrative of burden and massive extra cost of people living longer on its head and provides a refreshingly optimistic view of how everyone could enjoy a better later life.
A powerful, searing account of one woman's struggle with psychosis in the wake of her firstborn child, that strikes at the heart of our preconceptions about what it means to be a daughter, immigrant, wife – and mother.
From the bestselling author and columnist behind The Atlantic’s popular "How to Build a Life" series, a guide to transforming the life changes we fear into a source of strength.
Conversations with Friends meets The Goon Squad. A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, liberalism and bad behaviour in the post-Obama era, Very Nice is a wickedly smart take on the way we live now.
A guide for all of us struggling with the multiple demands of jobs that never seem to end and the complexities of home lives - this book offers a road map of practical, effective solutions.
Renowned cycling biomechanics pioneer, Phil Cavell, explores the growing trend of middle-aged and older cyclists seeking to achieve high-level performance.
A Year of Creativity demystifies what it means to be creative, showing how all of us need to exercise our creativity muscles if we are to meet the challenges of an uncertain world.
