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£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
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911107408 | ISBN 10: 1911107402
Head Above Water takes us into a space of intimate conversations on illness and society’s stigmatization of disabled bodies. We are invited in to ask the big questions about life, loss, and the place of the other. The narrative builds a bridg ... more
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£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
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£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.
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£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
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£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
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785925603 | ISBN 10: 1785925601
This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s+. These are varied and diverse, spanning different continents, genders, sexualities and ethnicities, ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911617563 | ISBN 10: 1911617567
A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger’s syndrome.
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that’s come bef ... more
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£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.Â
Keah Brown ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781773212579 | ISBN 10: 1773212575
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't "look" autistic. But, as he's quick to point out in this memoir, autism "looks" different for ju ... more
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£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
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£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
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781258590 | ISBN 10: 1781258597
'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift'
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Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786070388 | ISBN 10: 1786070383
Imagine hearing the words of a song but not feeling the passion that lies within. Imagine living for years with someone in need and not being able to sense their sadness. Imagine your world turned upside down...
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Like so many others, John Elder R ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910124222 | ISBN 10: 1910124222
'From the moment I watched a documentary of Chris Bonington and Tom Patey climb the perpendicular flanks of the Old Man of Hoy I knew that my life would not be complete until I had followed in their footholds. That was in 1983 when I was thirteen. Wi ... more
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£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
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£21.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780252080319 | ISBN 10: 0252080319
A new classroom-oriented collection that reconsiders and redefines the field.
The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. In this collection, Susan Burch and Michael Rembis present essays that integrate critical analysis of gende ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781419712173 | ISBN 10: 1419712179
A 2015 Newbery Honor Book
Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic n ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444776775 | ISBN 10: 1444776770
A rare and important insight into the mind of an autistic child.Â
Written by Naoki Higishida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book explains the often baffling behaviour of autistic children and shows the way they think and feel - such as ... more
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£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
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241956601 | ISBN 10: 0241956609
George and Sam are autistic. For their mother Charlotte Moore, writer of the Guardian's 'Mind the Gap' column, that means they can be as much a source of trouble as joy. The boys will only eat certain foods, have no sense of danger, listen obsessivel ... more
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£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.Â
Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a you ... more
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£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
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£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780252077395 | ISBN 10: 0252077393
An updated version of the memoir that changed perceptions of the deaf.
Henry Kisor lost his hearing at age three to meningitis and encephalitis but went on to excel in the most verbal of professions as a literary journalist. This new and exp ... more
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£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
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£18.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843104155 | ISBN 10: 1843104156
This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that di ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091926335 | ISBN 10: 0091926335
From the age of three or four years old, John Elder Robinson realise that he was different from other people.
Unable to make eye contact or connect eith other children, by the time John was a teenager his odd habits and eccentric pranks had earne ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780340899755 | ISBN 10: 0340899751
'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.' Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780747585657 | ISBN 10: 0747585652
When he was four years old Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York alongside other children diagnosed with autism. Here they received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran is now a policy adviser in W ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843103912 | ISBN 10: 1843103915
Have you ever found yourself worrying about the gerns on a door handle or counting the number of stairs at home? Do you avoid the cracks between paving stones as you walk down the street? Imagine what it would be like for these compulsions to dictate ... more
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£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
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£14.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843108023 | ISBN 10: 184310802x
From her first inklings of Elijah's difference, to her discovery of a whole spectrum of another way of life that includes everything from civil rights organizations for autistics to Asperger artists, Valerie Paradiz describes how she decided to cross ... more
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£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
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£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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£8.99 paperback (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780749391775 | ISBN 10: 0749391774
The autobiography of Christy Brown, a victim of cerebral palsy who was born and raised in Dublin, and died in 1981. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. ... more
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