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

By Kaye, Dr Philippa

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

By Radziwill, Carole

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

By Shuman, Robert

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

By Noble, Ivan

Smiling in Slow Motion (The Journals of Derek Jarman)

By Jarman, Derek, Bartlett, Neil

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

By Bland, Rachael

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

By Steele, Ken

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

By Fax, Face

Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations

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

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

By Kelly, Rachel

Against Medical Advice

By Patterson, James, Friedman, Hal

Lucky Man: A Memoir

By Michael J. Fox, Fox, Michael J.

George and Sam

By Moore, Charlotte

Walk A Mile: Tales of a Wandering Loon

By Young, Chris

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

By Lance Armstrong, Armstrong, Lance

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

By Bickley, Jodi Ann

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)

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

By Tim Parks

The Broken Boy

By Patrick Cockburn

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

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

By Irvin Yalom, Marilyn Yalom

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

By Henry Marsh

My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of My Life

By John Suchet

April Fool's Day

By Bryce Courtenay

I Think Theres Something Wrong With Me

By Nigel Smith

The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

By Sarah Beeny

My Mad Dad: The Diary of an Unravelling Mind

By Robyn Hollingworth

Girl, Interrupted: TikTok made me buy it!

By Susanna Kaysen

My Mad Fat Diary

By Rae Earl

Fighting for My Life: A Prisoner's Story of Redemption

By Billy Moore