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Secret Child

By Lewis, Gordon, Crofts, Andrew

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

By Northup, Solomon

For the Love of Sang (A Lion Paperback)

By Anderson, Rachel

Please Don't Leave Me: The heartbreaking journey of one man and his dog

By Clark, Michelle

Permanent Family Placement for Children of Minority Ethnic Origin

By June Thoburn, Liz Norford and Stephen Parvez Rashid

Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary Yet Ordinary

By Stephen Hicks and Janet McDermott

Therapeutic Parenting in a Nutshell: Positives and Pitfalls

By Naish, Sarah

Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children: Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness

By Sarah Lloyd

Why Can't My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families

By Dr Amber Elliott

Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig

By Celeste Ng

Love or Duty: An absorbing saga of heartache and family in 1920s Liverpool

By Rosie Harris

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

Hannah's Choice: A daughter's love for life. The mother who let her make the hardest decision of all.

By Kirsty Jones, Hannah Jones

Intercountry Adoption: Developments, Trends and Perspectives

By Peter Selman

Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman

By Charlie Gilmour

The Boy Between: An expertly crafted, suspenseful story of family secrets and one fateful summer

By Susan Stairs

Adoption Support Services for Families in Difficulty: A Literature Review and UK Survey

By Alan Rushton, Cherilyn Dance

More Than Just a Coincidence (My Story)

By Julie Wassmer

Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?

By Casey Watson

How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption

By Rosalind Powell

I Just Wanted to be Loved: A Boy Eager to Please. The Man Who Destroyed His Childhood. The Love That Overcame it.

By Howarth, Stuart

Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy’s Struggle to Survive. A Mother’s Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive.

By Thomas, David

Careless: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

By Kirsty Capes

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

Blue-Eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption

By Nicky Campbell

Oranges and Sunshine

By Margaret Humphreys

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

By Melissa Fay Greene

The Throwaway Children

By Diney Costeloe

Joining New Families: A Study of Adoption and Fostering in Middle Childhood

By David Quinton, Alan Rushton, Cherilyn Dance, Deborah Mayes