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Chao S: Threads of a Silk Purse

Threads of a Silk Purse

'When I was a little girl, I thought that a one-hundred-year-old lady was someone who only appeared in fairy tales, but here I find myself past that landmark. It's quite the surprise.' In 2020, at the age of 100, Tetsuyo Ishii was interviewed by her local paper in Hiroshima. Her positive outlook, wholesome lifestyle and connection to her community instantly captured the hearts of readers. In this charming book, Granny Tetsuyo shares the optimistic principles by which she lives her life, and the simple daily rituals that sustain her. After retiring from her job as a local teacher and sadly losing her husband, Granny Tetsuyo has learned to live a fulfilling life in solitude. Whether she's attending the friendship club she has held for nearly twenty-five years, or tending to her garden, Granny Tetsuyo continues to share her generosity with the world. Filled with personal stories, advice, traditional Japanese recipes and photo diary entries, this is a snapshot of a life well-lived and a guide to finding joy in every day.

A guide to living a long and happy life

Happy on Her Own at 102

Autism, Family and End-of-Life Care

Looking After

Winning. Losing. Starting Again

Inside

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026 WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026 'Please read this book. It may very well change how you live' Rachel Clarke 'Profound...compelling...beautiful' Nina Stibbe 'Filled with love...I was spellbound' Kathryn Mannix 'Brilliant...so special' Guardian An inspiring true story about life, love and letting go Sarah Perry's father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis. He was in some ways a very ordinary man: he loved stamp collecting, fish and chips, comic novels and his local church. Yet as Sarah and her husband Robert nursed David through his final days, they realised how extraordinary he really was. This loving, clear-eyed and unforgettable book shows how death may be met and understood as a part of life - a universal experience that is terrible and beautiful, intimate and real, sometimes all at once. A Book of the Year for The Times, Guardian, Financial Times and Observer 'Beautiful and profound and completely gripping' Mark Haddon 'A must-read' The Times 'We cannot be but somewhat changed by this remarkable book' Telegraph 'This book will be a lifeline for so many people' Seán Hewitt 'Perry is in a league of her own' Sara Collins

Death of an Ordinary Man

'"I liked the Jewish jokes," she says. "Oh, it's OK", I say. "I'm allowed to make them." Her eyes light up. And so it all begins.' When Max meets Eliana, a dazzling modern Orthodox Jewish girl, in a bar in Edinburgh one night, he never expected it to kickstart an agonising identity crisis. While their connection is instant and deep, Max discovers a devastating truth: that despite his upbringing, to millions around the world, including the girl he's fallen for, he is deemed non-Jewish. Determined to build a future with her, comedian and writer (and uncircumcised liberal Jew) Max Olesker embarks on one of the world's most demanding religious conversion processes. He attempts to navigate the dizzying complexities of Jewish law, the challenges of maintaining a relationship without physical contact, and the looming prospect of a date with a scalpel. From moving into the home of an Orthodox family for eight months to enduring gruelling interrogations by a high court of Rabbis, Max's journey is a rollercoaster of humour, heartbreak, and self-discovery. A hilarious and moving true account of one man's quest to marry the love of his life, Making the Cut will make you laugh, cry, and believe in the transformative power of love.

An Unorthodox Love Story

Making the Cut

Eine vielschichtige Graphic Novel-Biografie über Identität, Kunstfreiheit und eine Ikone der queeren Geschichte 
 Dichter, Dramatiker, Dandy: Oscar Wilde war eine der schillerndsten Figuren des späten 19. Jahrhunderts - gefeiert für seinen Witz, seine messerscharfen Dialoge und seine Brillanz, verfolgt für seine Andersartigkeit. Diese Graphic Novel wirft einen Blick hinter die Fassade und erzählt die Lebensgeschichte eines Schriftstellers, dessen wahres Ich sich oft hinter Ironie, Provokation und ästhetischer Überhöhung verbarg. 
 Im Mittelpunkt stehen nicht allein Wildes literarische Werke wie Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray oder Die Wichtigkeit, ernst zu sein, sondern seine Beziehungen, Leidenschaften und inneren Konflikte. Seine Liebe, sein Begehren und seine Weigerung, sich gesellschaftlichen Normen zu unterwerfen, machen ihn zur Zielscheibe eines repressiven Systems - mit tragischen Konsequenzen. 
 Diese eindrucksvolle Graphic Novel beleuchtet zentrale Themen wie Schönheitsideale, Rollenbilder, Männlichkeit und die politische Unterdrückung sexueller Minderheiten. Mit emotionaler Tiefe und historischer Sensibilität zeichnet sie das Porträt eines Mannes, der heute als Ikone der LGBTQ+-Community gilt - und dessen Geschichte aktueller ist denn je. 
 Eine moderne Comic-Biografie über Selbstbestimmung, Anpassung und den hohen Preis, den es kosten kann, man selbst zu sein.

Eine vielschichtige Graphic Novel-Biografie über Identität, Kunstfreiheit und eine Ikone der queeren GeschichteDichter, Dramatiker, Dandy: Oscar Wilde war eine der schillerndsten Figuren des späten 19. Jahrhunderts – gefeiert für seinen Witz, seine messerscharfen Dialoge und seine Brillanz, verfolgt für seine Andersartigkeit. Diese Graphic Novel wirft einen Blick hinter die Fassade und erzählt die Lebensgeschichte eines Schriftstellers, dessen wahres Ich sich oft hinter Ironie, Provokation und ästhetischer Überhöhung verbarg.
 Im Mittelpunkt stehen nicht allein Wildes literarische Werke wie 
 Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
 oder 
 Die Wichtigkeit, ernst zu sein
 , sondern seine Beziehungen, Leidenschaften und inneren Konflikte. Seine Liebe, sein Begehren und seine Weigerung, sich gesellschaftlichen Normen zu unterwerfen, machen ihn zur Zielscheibe eines repressiven Systems – mit tragischen Konsequenzen.
 Diese eindrucksvolle Graphic Novel beleuchtet zentrale Themen wie Schönheitsideale, Rollenbilder, Männlichkeit und die politische Unterdrückung sexueller Minderheiten. Mit emotionaler Tiefe und historischer Sensibilität zeichnet sie das Porträt eines Mannes, der heute als Ikone der LGBTQ+-Community gilt – und dessen Geschichte aktueller ist denn je.Eine moderne Comic-Biografie über Selbstbestimmung, Anpassung und den hohen Preis, den es kosten kann, man selbst zu sein.

Das bewegte Leben des legendären Autors von Dorian Gray als Graphic Novel

Oscar Wilde – die Comic-Biografie

There is no meant to be but the love I've known has made it hard to believe that An inventive, funny and deeply moving family epic: a love story, an elegy and a reminder that even in the mess of family and memory there is something to laugh about AN OBSERVER NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 'A wild ride' JON McGREGOR 'Raw and intimate, so daring and disobedient' SARAH HALL 'The most beautiful and truthful song to the pain present in a good life' EVIE WYLD Jarred McGinnis was born to a Southern US clan where masculinity, resilience and physical violence were intertwined. In There Is No Meant to Be he unearths the legends, secrets and scars that have shaped his family line from his outlaw Irish ancestors to his mother Momo's gift of foresight, and the ghosts - both real and remembered - that follow him into adulthood. Two decades on from the near-fatal accident that left him in a wheelchair, McGinnis is married and the father of two girls, living first in East London and now Marseille. He writes about love within the context of care and of the particular vulnerability that comes from being a parent with a disability. In a daring imaginative leap, he writes of the end of life too, reaching beyond his own death to look at what truly makes a life. 'Caustic, hilarious, unflinchingly honest and so captivatingly humane, I couldn't put this book down' JAN CARSON 'In a world teetering on madness, here is an ode to truth, courage, and the beautiful power of vulnerability' ELAINE FEENEY 'A multi-layered, many-textured masterpiece' CHARLIE GILMOUR

A Family Story

There Is No Meant to Be

California Governor Gavin Newsom's intimate and poignant account of identity, belonging, and the defining moments that inspired a life in politics 'Go slow,' his political elders advised him, but Gavin Newsom has never known such a speed. For Newsom, the California Dream is what lured his father's family from Ireland, six generations ago. His great-great-grandfather, a cop, walked a beat in San Francisco, where almost 150 years later Newsom would be elected as mayor. Newsom has never lived anywhere but California. His childhood was spent being tugged between two worlds: his mother worked three jobs in order to care for her children while his father, a close friend of the Getty family, brought Newsom into a world of wealth and connections. But the vantage point was valuable: he inherited his mother's perseverance and his father's reverence of California - not only its wildness, but its opportunity. In Young Man in a Hurry, Newsom traces the forces that have defined his ambitions as a politician. As mayor of San Francisco, he made waves when he violated state law in order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He launched bold efforts to counter climate change, improve mental health care, and enhance gun safety. Elected as governor and entering office into immediate hyper-partisan headwinds from Washington, DC, Newsom has constantly and consistently stuck his neck out. Here, he reflects on the long journey that ultimately shaped him into one of the most recognizable and accomplished elected officials in America.

A Memoir of Discovery

Young Man in a Hurry

The incredible history and promise of inter-species organ transplantation, from an award-winning transplant surgeon. With more than 100,000 patients in the United States waiting for life-saving organ transplants, the shortage of organs will never be solved if someone must die for someone else to be saved. And yet a solution is well within reach: xenotransplantation, or the transplanting of organs between different species—the once unimaginable scientific achievement that Joshua Mezrich explores in Every Living Creature. The story begins with efforts using chimpanzees and baboons from the 1960s through the 1990s, rife with ethical and practical complications and disappointments. The successful cloning of Dolly the sheep revived xeno-optimism, followed by the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, which finally opened the door to xenotransplantation in humans, using genetically modified pigs as organ donors. The protagonists of this story are as incredible as the science it details: a transgender visionary, the highest-paid female CEO in the world, who simply wants her daughter to live; the surgeon saved by a high-risk heart transplant, who swears by the promise of pigs’ organs; the brilliant and brash surgeon-scientist-entrepreneur, who is risking everything to make xenotransplantation a reality. Each plays a part in what is, in the end, the story of a miracle—not the answer to a prayer, as Every Living Creature makes clear, but a miracle we can breed.

The incredible history and promise of inter-species organ transplantation, from an award-winning transplant surgeon.

How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives

Every Living Creature

The big-hearted, bestselling South Korean memoir co-written by two best friends flouting gender norms and societal expectations with their decision to grow old together under one roof. When most of their peers were moving in with romantic partners and having children, Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo chose independence—savoring solitude, quiet mornings, and the unmitigated freedom of living alone. But in their forties, something shifted, and they were met with a new, unexpected loneliness. Refusing to settle for the outdated choice between marriage or isolation, Hana and Sunwoo made a radical decision: to buy a home and live together—not as lovers, not as roommates, but as chosen family.Now a bustling household of two women and four cats, Hana and Sunwoo still value solitude, but can do so while sharing a life and its meaning with someone else. Together they navigate the challenges and comforts of cohabiting in midlife, the growing pains of interdependence and the unexpected rewards of compromise when you’ve grown set in your ways. From sick days to career wins to aging parents and beach-side retirement plans, they are redefining domestic bliss on their own terms, where love, partnership, and home are defined not by tradition, but by choice.With warmth, wit, and sharp social insight, Hana and Sunwoo share their blueprint for building a life outside the scripts of marriage and society’s expectations for women. Two Women Living Together is a quiet revolution—a celebration of female friendship, community, and the many forms that love and family can take.

The Bestselling Korean Memoir

Two Women Living Together

'An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules tells us that the same is true for people and nations' SERHII PLOKHY I am writing this story without knowing its end: it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die. I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia's grandmother's deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her Aunt Zhenia's school protest, to her own parents' flight from Ukraine when their town was occupied in 2022. This is an ode to the land, to ideas of home and belonging, and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations - the tang of sour cherries, the best way to make borsch. It is an account of resilience in the hardest of circumstances. Strong Roots brims with hope and grief. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations struggling and surviving through war, peace, invasion and exile. It is an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots.

A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted

Strong Roots

'ENTHRALLING ... A PASSIONATE, WELL-ARGUED AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ' - The Times AN AMAZON BOOK OF THE YEAR For readers of Chris van Tulleken, Tim Spector and Ben Goldacre: An international bestseller which reveals how modern-day crises have been caused by the medical establishment, and what you really need to know about your health. Is HRT unsafe? Should you avoid giving peanut butter to small children? Blind Spots uncovers how inaccurate research drives medical myths which can spark public health crises. Doctors said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonised natural fat in foods, driving patients to eat processed carbohydrates as obesity soared. Modern medicine shines when it draws on good scientific studies. But when medicine is led by dogmatic groupthink, it's everyday people who fall victim. Blind Spots examines the latest research to reveal the truths essential to our health.

When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

Blind Spots

Threads of a Silk Purse

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