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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 24 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781914240478 | ISBN 10: 1914240472
WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST GOODREADS CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  ‘An absolute riot. I ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914484810 | ISBN 10: 1914484819
‘Törnvall has written an important, illuminating first book, one that deserves to sit alongside the best insider accounts of autism … [The Autists] should be required reading for all parents, partners, friends and colleagues of anyone on the aut ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780349702421 | ISBN 10: 034970242x
‘Incredible insight with a transgressive, witty, spirit.’ COURTNEY LOVE ‘The most sensational read of 2022!’ GEMMA COLLINS ‘A breath of fresh air... I want so many people to read this!’ TRAVIS ALABANZA ‘Visionary’ VIV ALBERTINE A ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472274366 | ISBN 10: 1472274369
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780062936806 | ISBN 10: 0062936808
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838950057 | ISBN 10: 1838950052
'It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.' ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817
***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE*** ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD*** In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912408320 | ISBN 10: 1912408325
An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic by Charlotte Amelia Poe presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism. Poe’s voice is confident, moving ... 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£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£17.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781439909379 | ISBN 10: 1439909377
"I've known Harilyn Rousso as a powerful activist and gifted artist, but with this revelatory book, she becomes something even rarer: a storyteller who conveys her uniqueness and so helps us to discover our own. Don't Call Me Inspirational is irresis ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780285641273 | ISBN 10: 0285641271
“It is the hippies of outrageous fortune that weigh heavy on the minds of dogs,” Meet Jess, aka Touretteshero. Jess has Tourettes Syndrome, which means she makes sounds and movements over which she has no control. Jess swears – she’s one of ab ... 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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780807073315 | ISBN 10: 0807073318
When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucin ... 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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849058261 | ISBN 10: 1849058261
Girls with Asperger's Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, and even once symptoms have been recognised, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females of any age can often mask difficulties, deficit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747566694 | ISBN 10: 0747566690
Animals in Translation is the culmination of Temple Grandin's extraordinary life's work, drawing upon the latest research, her distinguished career as an animal scientist, and her own experience of being autistic. With co-author Catherine Johnson, G ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747585329 | ISBN 10: 0747585326
The idea that some people think differently, though no less humanly, is explored in this inspiring book. Temple Grandin is a gifted and successful animal scientist, and she is autistic. Here she tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving t ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781590170670 | ISBN 10: 1590170679
Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work — one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704346512 | ISBN 10: 0704346516
'Bow we shall be able to come up here together every day, and just go where we like; and you will be able all your life to walk about as I do, and not be pushed about in a chair ... it is the greatest happiness we could have had!' (from Heidi, Joanna ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853027185 | ISBN 10: 1853027189
Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar: deaf, wild, disturbed, stupid, insane... She lived within herself, her own world her foreground, ours a background she only visited. Isolated from herself and from the outside world, Donna w ... more
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