Mother: A Memoir, Paperback - Nicholas Royle

An extraordinary portrait of family life, mother-son relationships and bereavement.

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This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, f...

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A mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction publishing from the 1970s to...

A lucid, original and inventive critical introduction to Helene Cixous (1937-). Royle offers close readings of many of her works, from Inside (1969...

The annual collection of the best British short stories of the year, now in its 7th year. Last year's edition was chosen as a }Guardian{ Book of th...

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A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Maxene RaicesIn 1964 the Vietnam War was heating up, drafting young men into battle. It was an era in which sex was not dis...

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This provocative and life-affirming memoir, by one of the world's foremost intersex activists, charts the author's journey from discovering she is ...

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Closed adoption, heralded as the answer to the problem of unplanned pregnancy, shows its other side in A Life Let Go, A Memoir and Five Birth Mothe...

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For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood, and a love letter...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Gina YashereNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 203 x 22Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

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Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socia...

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The author of the explosive New York Times-bestselling memoir Unorthodox chronicles her continuing journey as a single mother, an independent woman...

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Description"A gutsy book you need to read right now. Filled with heart and humor, it's scary good." --Courtney Love Unwifeable is the "riveting" (C...

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