General Non-Fiction

I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.

After his family falls apart, a teenage boy from Philadelphia drifts into crime, drugs, and violence, surviving on bad decisions, dumb luck, and the fact that somehow nothing kills him.

A powerful true story of trauma, determination, and the journey to rebuild a life beyond the uniform.

Told through 35 years of working with rejected, mistreated, sick, and homeless animals, award-winning author Sunny Weber’s memoir tells poignant, humorous, hopeful, and heartfelt stories, in a tribute to the fearful and forgotten, and the delicate, unseen work of saving lives.

This is the story of how and why Greta Garbo came to be the role model and inspiration for millions of women as they became modern.

I asked AI to predict what could happen if the entire government – executive, legislative, and judicial branches – was Republican … albeit with one critical caveat: the president was a convicted felon. At first, AI was baffled, stumped, and spent much longer than usual in its “thinking” mode. Then...

From @SecondMentions, christened ‘the best thing on social media’ by The Times, comes a creative collection of creative linguistic curiosities that capture the art of avoiding repetition