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A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

This book is the third volume in 5 Lessons from Cervantes and presents insights from Chapters I through XLI of Part 2 of Cervantes's celebrated novel Don Quixote de La Mancha. (Previous volumes treats Part One of the novel. Volume I treats Chapters I through XIV of Part One; Volume II treats Chapters XV through LII of Part One). A future Volume IV will finish the entire novel. This series has been a personal quest for me just as the adventures of Don Quixote are his personal quest. Many view Cervantes as an unparalleled genius who authored the first modern novel in the West. Over many years...

The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey is the first audiobook that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that, far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.

More than 30 years ago, David Loftus' cherished identical twin, John, passed away. Ever since, a day hasn’t passed without David feeling the loss. Over the past year, David has spent an hour every day remembering John and recording his story by hand. Diary of a Lone Twin is the product of that daily ritual - a powerful and deeply personal account that covers everything from enchanting and charmingly evoked childhood vignettes to the acute loneliness and raw pain that followed John’s death.

Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives.

Based on a true story, Found at Sea is the account of how 19-year-old Pete O’Brien, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, is interrupted on his journey by his arrest on drug charges in Bangkok, Thailand and incarcerated in a prison in the heart of that city, along as what follows when he is eventually deported to the custody of a U.S. Consul in Singapore. Once arrived there, he is offered employment aboard an American merchant vessel as an alternative to a flight back to the United States in disgrace and the day that he boards a consulate launch for a trip out into Singapore ...

On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.

Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of COVID. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic. Theroux the Keyhole is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in COVID World.

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humour. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in ‘An Open Letter to My Insurance Company’, which should be an anthem for anyone who has ever had to call their insurance company to try and get a claim covered.

When Milo Yiannopoulos burst onto the scene with his Dangerous Faggot tour, people wondered who is this British upstart and why was his star rising so fast? Behind the blonde pompadour and outrageous act lies a murkier story. One of prostitution, bankruptcy and lawsuits. Of failures and reinventions and bridges burned along the way. This book talks to people from London to LA who knew the man before he was "the internet's most fabulous supervillain”. Find out what makes Milo tick and the secrets he won't tell from his real name to who gave him a leg up in the media industry. The first ...

Since her early days in her hometown of Saint Louis Missouri, Sherre Still has had several visions for herself. Like most us, Sherre worked hard toward a successful career path in the world of 9-to-5 living. But she wanted more. After a devasting loss, one dream of hers continued to pursue her. She had achieved a lot but had not yet realized her ultimate goal: authorship.