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Jackie Pullinger (Heroes of the Cross S.)

By Joan Clifford

The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By Reverend Richard Coles

Leap of Faith: The New Autobiography

By Frankie Dettori

The Night of the Gun

By David Carr

Opium Eater: Life of Thomas De Quincey

By Grevel Lindop

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

By Claire Dederer

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

By Lily Dunn

Pihkal

By Alexander T. Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

The End of My Addiction: How One Man Cured Himself of Alcoholism

By Olivier Ameisen

A Likely Lad

By Peter Doherty, Simon Spence

Glorious Rock Bottom: 'A shocking story told with heart and hope. You won't be able to put it down.' Dolly Alderton

By Bryony Gordon

Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks

By Sam Delaney

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

By Turney Duff

Can You Hear Me?: An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By Jake Jones

The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling's corruption

By Matt Rendell

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

A Life in Parts

By Bryan Cranston

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By William Palmer

The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

By Clare Pooley

Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery

By Merson, Paul

Drinking: A Love Story

By Caroline Knapp

Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

By Robby Krieger

Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography

By Jonathan Wilson

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By Michael Pollan

Will

By Will Self

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

By David Sheff

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By Thomas De Quincey, Barry Milligan

Chinglish

By Cheung, Sue

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By Whitaker, Holly Glenn

Lectures on Macroeconomics (The MIT Press)

By Blanchard, Olivier