At the end of a century that has witnessed incredible technological advances, there is a vast increase in physical diseases that cannot be adequately diagnosed or treated. Recent years have seen an explosion of seemingly new conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, bulimia nervosa and post-traumatic stress disorder. In this fascinating book, Read explains how some people become physically ill in response to life changes such as unemployment, divorce, and violent crime, whereas others seem able to cope. What's more, he argues that treatment will be successful only if we understand these illnesses in the light of the patient's personality and experiences.

Sick and Tired: Healing the Illnesses Doctors Cannot Cure

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Read, Dr. Nick

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Orion Publishing

Francis Partridge's diaries are the record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group, but was the circle’s oldest surviving member until her death in 2004. At the age of 100, Frances Partridge decided to publish another volume of diaries which cover the years 1972-1975. Recognized as one of the great British diarists of the century, she was born in Bloomsbury in 1900, studied at Cambridge, and became part of the Bloomsbury Group, encountering Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry and Maynard Keynes. Her diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle a remarkable life. Beautifully written, full of an infectious enthusiasm and unending curiosity, they are utterly riveting and rank amongst the greatest diaries of the 20th century.

Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-1975: Volume 7

Partridge, Frances

Literature & Fiction

These are the stories of the people in Parita Mukta's family, a family which has traversed the continents bearing with it an array of memories and stories, both magical and mythological. The book follows the move of the author's grandparents in the early 1920s from western India to a Kenyan colony, and spans a period of over eighty years. It tells the history of the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of these migrants as they built their lives first in East Africa and then from the 1970s onwards in the cities of London, Ahemdabad, Miami and Toronto.

Shards of Memory: Woven Lives in Four Generations

Biographies & Memoirs

Mukta, Parita

Community & Culture

As an actor, Dirk Bogarde became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working with directors such as Joseph Losey, Lucino Visconti, and Alain Resnais. Fiercely protective of his privacy, and that of his partner of 40 years, he left England in the 1960s to live on the continent, where he carved a second career for himself as a bestselling autobiographer and successful novelist. Although Bogarde destroyed many of his papers, his family has made available his personal archive to John Coldstream, who knew him well in his last years.

Dirk Bogarde: The Authorised Biography

Coldstream, John

Arts & Literature

Steve Grand is a self-taught scientist who has deliberately eschewed large public grants and laboratory affiliation so as to give himself the freedom required to put his revolutionary theories on artificial intelligence to the test. The result is Lucy, one of the most advanced research robots in existence, and it is Lucy's successes and failures which stand as indicators of the present state of robotics. The compelling story of Lucy's creation, all done in Steve's own home, is a fascinating mixture of human perseverance and cutting edge scientific endeavour.

Growing Up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps

Computers & Technology

Grand, Steve

Computer Science

The great Edwardian statesman Sir Edward Grey was a passionate naturalist, and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Between 1895 and 1905 he made detailed nature notes at his cottage by a trout stream near Itchen Abbas in Hampshire. The text of his "Cottage Book" forms the basis for this beautiful book, alongside dozens of specially commissioned watercolours, contemporary photographs and woodcuts, and maps.

The Cottage Book: The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman

History

Grey, Sir Edward

Europe

Gabriel Angelico lives in a mountain town in Venezuela, and when a young Norwegian woman, Klara Jorgenson, appears in town, his life is changed forever. Klara must choose between her soulmate, Gabriel, and William Penn, the reliable, loving Norwegian man she has been living with on an island off the coast of Venezuela. Rich with loving imagery and insightful description, this book is a tender exploration of human tragedies.

Nutmeg

Valla, Kristin

Literary

In a society obsessed with shallow celebrity and our "fifteen minutes" of fame, have we lost sight of real values? In this controversial and eye-opening book, Nick Clarke uses the lives of six celebrities to show how the media has infiltrated our national psyche. Once a proud nation, we now seem to prefer docu-soaps and fly-on-the-wall dramas to real political and social involvement. So what does this bode for the future of Britain?

The Shadow of a Nation: The Changing Face of Britain

Clarke, Nick

A young girl grows up an outsider, then becomes drawn into the life of a local family with some curious beliefs. They treat her as a daughter, and take her away with them to a religious holiday camp. It is here that she is introduced to the Finnish Envallist branch of Protestantism, and here that events start to take a terrible turn. Rejected by some of the sectarians for her non-commitment to their beliefs, Natalie creates a rift in the group which culminates in a climactic event. Later, as an adult in Finland, she tries to make sense of what happened and to unlock the secret origins of Envallism itself.

The Story of My Face

Page, Kathy

British & Irish

This book is a pacy and innovative twist on a classic murder mystery. Bruce waits seven years for a big story, and then Emma Fine, an ex-actress with an unsolved murder behind her, blows into his life. Bruce starts to investigate what led to her lover's body being pulled out of her pool one hot summer morning. The lover's wife Bridget had been having surgery, becoming a sinister body double. Is this woman who returns Emma after all? Or Bridget? One is still missing and Bruce wants to know which.

Blur

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Berry, Michelle

Mystery

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