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Not Afraid - The Evolution Of Eminem [Bok / Pocket]

<p>Written with a searing honesty and originally published for the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship - and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage. Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amy's best friend from the age of thirteen.</p><p>They met at stage school as two insecure outsiders, formed an instant connection and lived together from their late teenage years right up until the day she died, aged just twenty-seven. Tyler was there by her side through it all. From their carefree early years touring together to the creation of the multiple Grammy-winning Back To Black, which she wrote on their kitchen floor.</p><p>From her volatile marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil through her escalating addictions, self-harm and eating disorders as the toxic nature of fame warped Amy's reality. For the last three years of her life, Tyler was with her every day when she'd beaten drugs and was close to beating alcoholism too. He also knew better than anyone the real Amy Winehouse who the tabloid-reading public rarely saw - the hilarious, uncompromising force-of-nature busy taking care of everyone else.</p><p>We all think we know what happened to Amy Winehouse, but we don't. This definitive insider's story tells us all, finally, the truth. 'Heartbreaking' - The Times</p>

The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him call themselves 'stalkers': wild adventurers who sneak past border patrols to spend days getting lost in this apocalyptic environment of dense swampland and desolate villages. Kamysh, the son of a Chornobyl disaster liquidator, takes us with him into this alien world. In electric prose that captures the spectral beauty of the Zone and the reckless spirit of the stalkers, Kamysh tells of hallucinatory journeys alone amid the rusted ruins, of frantic brushes with police and moments of ecstatic oblivion in the wasteland. Written with gonzo energy and brash lyricism, Stalking the Atomic City is a vital, singular document of this dystopian reality.

<b>The International No. 1 Bestseller</b> <b>A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick </b> <b>'Cuts to the heart of who we are' <i>Sunday Times</i></b> <b>'A book that begs discussion' <i>Vanity Fair</i></b> All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women? <b>'I will probably re-read it every year of my life' Caitlin Moran</b> <b>'Will have millions nodding in recognition' <i>The Times</i></b> <b>'As gripping as the most gripping thriller' Marian Keyes</b> <b>'When I picked it up, I felt I'd been waiting half my life to read it' <i>Observer</i></b> <b>'The kind of bold, timely, once-in-a-generation book that every house should have a copy of, and probably will before too long' <i>New Statesman</i></b> <b><i>The book Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alexa Chung, J</i><i>odie Comer, Reese Witherspoon, Harry Styles, Fearne Cotton, Caitriona Balfe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sharon Horgan, Zoe Ball, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, </i><i>Davina McCall, Gemma Chan, Christine and the Queens and Gillian Anderson are all reading</i></b>

<p><b>THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN IS A LOVE STORY, A LOVE STORY ABOUT BOOKS</b><br/><br/>Nanako Hanada's life has not just flatlined, it's hit rock bottom... Recently separated from her husband, she is living between 4-hour capsule hostels, pokey internet cafes and bookshop floors. Her work is going no better - sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. As Nanako's life falls apart, reading books is the only thing keeping her alive.<br/><br/>That's until Nanako joins an online meet-up site which offers 30 minutes with someone you'll never see again. Describing herself as a sexy bookseller she offers strangers 'the book that will change their life' in exchange for a meeting. In the year that follows, Nanako meets hundreds of people, some of whom want more than just a book...<br/><br/>Acerbic and self-knowing, <b><i>The Bookshop Woman</i></b> is a soul-soothing story of a bookseller's self-discovery and an ode to the joy of reading. Offering a glimpse into bookselling in Japan and the quirky side of Tokyo and its people, this is a story of how books can help us forge connection with others and lead us to ourselves.<br/><br/><b>This is a story about the beauty of climbing into a book, free diving into its pages, and then resurfacing on the last page, ready to breathe a different kind of air...</b></p>

<p><i>Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.</i><br/><br/>In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele - Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor and Ray Charles. Unflinchingly honest and darkly funny, this bestselling memoir is a sharply vivid portrait of Susanna's fellow patients, the kaleidoscopically shifting world of the late sixties, and how sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.<br/><br/><b>'<i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. An intense and personal story that taps into a universal truth about how the world responds to complicated young women' SCARLETT CURTIS</b><br/><b><br/>'Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny . . . A compelling and heartbreaking story' NEW YORK TIMES</b><br/><b><br/>'Not since Sylvia Plath's <i>The Bell Jar</i> has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim' <i>TIME</i></b><br/><b><br/>'A cool, elegant and unexpectedly funny memoir' <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i></b><br/><b><br/>'Memorable and stirring' <i>VOGUE</i></b></p>

<p><b>*A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER*</b><br/><b><br/>'HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT F1.' -</b>Sam Walker, author of <i>The Captain Class</i><br/><b>'MODERN F1 IS THE SPORTS STORY OF THIS ERA AND NO ONE COULD TELL IT BETTER' -</b>Kevin Clark, ESPN<br/><b>'THE FASTEST READ YOU WILL EVER PICK UP' -</b>A.J. Baime, author of <i>Go Like Hell</i><br/><b><br/>F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of <i>Drive to Survive</i>. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - <i>Wall Street Journal </i>reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, petrolheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers and bitter rivalries.</b><br/><br/>The story of F1's world dominance is one of near-constant transformation and experimentation. This is a sport where the only way to win championships is to land a series of technical moon shots - and then do it all over again. With fast cars, big money, beautiful people, and glamorous locations from Monaco to Melbourne, <i>The Formula </i>tells the full, epic story of the sport. Starting in 1950s Britain, where six years of wartime engineering laid the foundations for a new type of motorcar racing; to the first global star partnership of Senna and Ecclestone; Spygate; Crashgate and its transition into an entertainment juggernaut. Bringing unique insight and access to F1's most storied teams and personalities - from Ferrari to Lewis Hamilton to Christian Horner and Daniel Ricciardo -<i>The Formula</i> offers a riveting portrait of the drivers, corporations, cars, rivalries, and audacious gambles that have shaped the sport for half a century.<br/><br/>The end result is a high-octane history of how modern F1 racing came to be - the first book to tell the story of the outrageous successes and spectacular crashes that led F1 to this extraordinary yet precarious moment. More than just a sports story, it is the tale of a commercial empire, one built in the 20th century, rendered almost obsolete in the early 21st, and re-emerged world-dominant today; a disrupter that claimed its place in the crowded sports marketplace through cash, personality, and a new understanding of what a sport needs to be in the age of wall-to-wall entertainment.</p>