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My Lobotomy: A Memoir

By Howard Dully, Charles Fleming

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

By Bakewell, Sarah

Six Months to Live: Learning from a Young Man with Cancer

By Daniel Hallock

Heavy: An American Memoir

By Kiese Laymon

The Genius in My Basement

By Alexander Masters

I Think Theres Something Wrong With Me

By Nigel Smith

April Fool's Day

By Bryce Courtenay

My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of My Life

By John Suchet

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM

By Henry Marsh

A Matter of Death and Life: Love, Loss and What Matters in the End

By Irvin Yalom, Marilyn Yalom

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

Train Lord: The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track

By Mol, Oliver

My Friend Leonard

By Frey, James

Undying: A Novel

By Gitlin, Todd

Diagnosis, Cancer: Where Do We Go from Here?

By Jeanne Scheresky

When Your Friend is Dying

By Burnham, Elizabeth Dean

This is Not a Pity Memoir: The heartbreaking and life-affirming bestseller from the writer of The Split

By Morgan, Abi

Mad Diet: Easy steps to lose weight and cure depression

By Lockhart, Suzanne