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Direct RedGabriel Weston
How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live? Gabriel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival. Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human dignity with compassion and insight, illuminating scenes of life and death the rest of us rarely glimpse.
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All My Shows Are Great
Lewis Chester
The man who brought The Muppet Show to our TV screens was born to humble Jewish immigrants in London's East End. In his youth he was the world Charleston dance champion, becoming a successful theatre impresario, before winning the ATV franchise. This is the first biography of a pioneer of popular culture, responsible for introducing hits such as Saturday Night at the London Palladium, Thunderbirds and the notoriously costly film Raise the Titantic!
It was Tops of the Pops that first introduced the ‘punk's poet laureate’ to a wider audience in 1978, shortly before he sealed his place in music history with the classic single ‘Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick’. By this time, Dury was 36; he had spent his life overcoming the prejudice and physical challenge of being disabled by childhood polio. A complex and often difficult man, he was nevertheless an inspiration to thousands, and greatly respected by his musical peers.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ilan Stavans
A biography which sheds new light on the early years of the Nobel laureate and the father of magic realism, leading up to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967. Most significantly, he was raised by his maternal grandparents, although his grandfather, a colonel, had initially opposed his parents' marriage, a theme which was to appear in Marquez' later novel, Love in the Time of Cholera .
The Man Who Lives with Wolves
Shaun Ellis
Growing up in the Norfolk countryside, Shaun Ellis developed an affinity with wild animals at a young age. His particular fascination for wolves led him to spend time with a Native American tribe, watching wolves, understanding their behaviour and learning to communicate with them. Ultimately he lived as part of the pack for two years, with no human contact. Now he shares his experiences and his insights into the canine mind, both wild and domesticated.
Beg, Borrow, Steal
Michael Greenberg
A wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practise his craft. He tells of rewriting doomed film scripts and articles on golf (which he has never played), and of selling cosmetics and working as a waiter just to make ends meet. There are bittersweet recollections of the Holocaust survivor who tried to leave Greenberg his fortune and the many other picaresque characters with whom he has crossed paths.
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
Xinran
Me and My Bipolar Family
David Lovelace
Like his parents and his brother, David Lovelace is bipolar. His father was a Princeton theology professor deemed too eccentric for the ministry. Lovelace's first bout of depression came as a teenager and his first manic period when at college. Drug and alcohol abuse and fleeing to South America offered no solution, but ultimately he learned to channel the sporadic and extraordinary creativity of the condition better than others in his family.
Things I've Been Silent About
Azar Nafisi
Where Does it Hurt?
Max Pemberton
The author of Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor returns. Now into his second year, he's out of the wards and on the streets as part of the Phoenix Outreach Project. Dealing with everything from mums addicted to painkillers to Molly the 80-year-old drugs mule, he battles on in the face of his friends' disapproval and his mother's disappointment, knowing that he can't work miracles, but that he can sometimes make a difference.
