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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£15.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780593469736 | ISBN 10: 0593469739
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781761500169 | ISBN 10: 1761500163
An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and disability advocate Chloé Hayden 'Fierce, unapologetic and joyous...This book is a marvel.' -Jordon Steele-John, D ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914484667 | ISBN 10: 1914484665
'Moving...the essays are at their richest when the authors describe what ought to be mundane (for example, discussing how to adjust the height of a kitchen counter for a wheelchair) or when they are brutally honest.’ James Coney, The Sunday Times ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781984899422 | ISBN 10: 1984899422
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent — but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781982100544 | ISBN 10: 1982100540
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781409172512 | ISBN 10: 1409172511
Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace within our own unquiet minds. In August 2015, Ka ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785924347 | ISBN 10: 1785924346
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781257760 | ISBN 10: 1781257760
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...' For twelve years, Bella ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352
What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843547037 | ISBN 10: 1843547031
An intensely honest, riveting and surprisingly witty literary memoir of one woman's life as a sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a you ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539537 | ISBN 10: 0099539535
Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed like an assault especially tailored for someone whose life consisted of reading a ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844547845 | ISBN 10: 1844547841
When Anna and Sean Kennedy discovered that one of their sons had asperger's syndrome and that their other son was autistic, they were truly devastated, but their family's troubles were just the beginning. Turned away by no fewer than 26 special needs ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9781843107125 | ISBN 10: 1843107120
His discovery only in retirement that he has high-functioning autism provided Edgar Schneider at last with an explanation for his many differences, explored in Living the Good Life With Autism. In this book he takes up the story, telling of his ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780470869796 | ISBN 10: 0470869798
In 1997, writer Patricia Stacey and her husband, Cliff, learned that their six-month-old son, Walker, might never walk or talk, or even see or hear. Unwilling to accept this grim prognosis, they embarked on a five-year odyssey that took them into alt ... more
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