How does one rise above the trauma of child sexual abuse?Sofia Abdullah is now an international women’s and children’s rights champion, fighting for equality and fair treatment for disempowered groups all over the world. But she comes from a painful past—one in which she was sexually abused as a child by a family member. Taking many years to heal from the trauma, these are pages from her notes documenting her journey of coming to terms with what had happened. This is her journey of...

One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom." Annabel Crabb "Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and the true cost of betrayal." Trent Dalton What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you have to face up to your own addictions? Mental illnesses rain down on those you love? Parents die, careers end, love is found in unexpected places. As a journalist, Kate Legge often sought answers to how people reckon with bad hands dea...

This is a movie tie-in edition and any reviews posted before October 10, 2019 are from the previous edition of the same title published in 2015.Aisha Chaudhary was born with SCID (severe combined immune deficiency) and underwent a bone-marrow transplant when she was six months old. She lived in New Delhi, where she was born.The year 2014 was brutal for Aisha as her disease progressed, and her lungs started giving up on her. The last few months of the year felt like a roller-...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and gives us light. She writes like a dream.’ MATT HAIG’Utterly captivating and magical.’ JULIA BRADBURY‘Luminous and deeply comforting’ KATHERINE MAYJulia Baird’s intimate study of phosphorescence is full of wisdom and joy; a roadmap for rediscovering our inner light after the darkest of ti...

With a new afterword.'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip PullmanKate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she has taught in her thirty-year career.Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of thirteen-year-olds. As she wo...

"A candid story of resilience amidst life’s extreme adversities."--Brahma Kumari Shivani, Spiritual Counsellor, India"Betty Steinhauer is a terrific role model for any woman who yearns to experience life outside the box and create her own adventure."--Susan Clark, actress/producer/activist, Los Angeles, USA, and Toronto, Canada"This splendid book is an essential template for life’s journey, loaded with fascinating insights through a universal view of the world."--Dr Bill Ho...

'There are moments in time when our internal perceptions are confronted by external events, when what is assumed, wished or imagined collides with what is...'Sophie Sabbage, author of The Cancer Whisperer, has written this book to show that we can choose how we respond to these Lifeshocks.She shows lifeshocks knock on the doors of our pretences and invite us to walk authentically through the world, and that if we recognize this, we can respond to them creatively. B...

The End of Suffering is about the shared human experience and our universal desire to be free of the burden of suffering. It is about healing. Even though the causes of our pain are different, the nature of what we share is identical. All of us at one time hurt and we all carry events which sometimes break us. But we are not alone, we can feel better, and there is a way forward. The End of Sufferi ng contains everything a person needs to find their way through whatever they are going throu...

A short guide on how to recover from the pain, sorrow and bewilderment that is caused by relationship break downs. This useful mini guide was written from self experience, in a nutshell it points out possible causes behind relationship break downs and points a guiding finger towards a return to a state of happiness.

Hunched exhausted at his computer one ordinary Monday morning, world-class workaholic Nick Thorpe has reached the end of his tether. Fearing for his health and family life, he knows something has to change. But where to start when trying too hard is part of the problem?Nick makes a bold resolution: he will spend a year learning to let go. Beginning with a plunge off a Cornish cliff, he soon graduates to wing-walking on a bi-plane, city-centre clowning and a revealing weekend at a na...

Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate.To celebrate its 15th year Mascara Literary Review presents their first print anthology, featuring writing that addresses and explores the theme of resilience through...

Sacred Heart of Love,I place myself in you.Sacred Heart of Love,place yourself in meWhat turned a shy sombre child into a passionate women? In Discovering Audacious Love Mary Jo reveals how this transformation came about. Discovering Audacious Love brings the reader right into Mary Jos childhood home, close beside her hospital bed, high up into mountains and deep into luscious forests. But more importantly it takes the rea...