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Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor's Diary of Life and Recovery From Cancer

By Kaye, Dr Philippa

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

The Broken Boy

By Patrick Cockburn

Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

By Tim Parks

Breast Beating: A personal odyssey in the quest for an understanding of breast cancer, the meaning of life and other easy questions

By Professor Michael Baum, MB ChB FRCS ChM MD(Hon) FRCR(Hon); (Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University College London)

One Million Lovely Letters: When life is looking hopeless, one inspirational letter can change your life forever

By Bickley, Jodi Ann

It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life

By Lance Armstrong, Armstrong, Lance

Walk A Mile: Tales of a Wandering Loon

By Young, Chris

George and Sam

By Moore, Charlotte

Lucky Man: A Memoir

By Michael J. Fox, Fox, Michael J.

Against Medical Advice

By Patterson, James, Friedman, Hal

Black Rainbow: How words healed me: my journey through depression

By Kelly, Rachel

Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations

By John Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Dominic Lawson, Diamond, John, Dawkins, Richard, Lawson, Dominic

Trilogy: How to help the Mind, Body & Spirit survive Mouth, Head & Neck Cancer

By Fax, Face

The Day The Voices Stopped: A Memoir of Madness and Hope

By Steele, Ken

For Freddie: A Mother's Final Gift to Her Son

By Bland, Rachael

Smiling in Slow Motion (The Journals of Derek Jarman)

By Jarman, Derek, Bartlett, Neil

Like A Hole In The Head: Living With A Brain Tumour

By Noble, Ivan

The Psychology of Chronic Illness: The Healing Work of Patients, Therapists, and Families (Basic Books Families and Health Series)

By Shuman, Robert

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

By Radziwill, Carole

You Can't Take It With You

By Tomlinson, Jane, Mike

The Comfort Book

By Haig, Matt

Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

By Rees, Jasper

Iris Grace

By Carter-Johnson, Arabella

In Search of a Mother

By Leek, Julie

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By Wilkins, Rob

Torn Apart: The True Story of a Childhood Lost

By Patterson, James

The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Suicidal Despair to Hope

By Benjamin, Jonny, Pflüger, Britt, cambridge, H.R.H. The Duke of

Darkness was my Candle: An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

By Lora DeVore

Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces

By Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert