People with Disabilities

Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester arena on the night of 22nd May 2017.... 

Steel shutters were clanging down in my head: I dared not even think about my son, just emerging from his teenage years, or of my sorry future....

A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of Asperger's - and its reaching effects on a whole family....

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....

A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....

Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within 36 hours.... 

Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth....

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend....

Inside My Outside: An Independent Mind in a Dependent Body provides an in-depth look into the life of a young woman with cerebral palsy who cannot walk or talk but who uses an electronic device for communication....

A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect....

As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people....

When PhD candidate Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a blow to the head, she believes she walks away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s quickly led to the emergency room. By the end of the week, a neurologist delivers a devastating prognosis....

In Everything Is Going to be K.O. Kaiya Stone writes about her own experiences of living with specific learning difficulties....

Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder....

My Autistic Fight Song is a memoir that follows Rosie Weldon’s journey from a college drop out as she tries to achieve her dream of being a qualified accountant. With the odds stacked against her and the stakes high, she refuses to give up on her dream....

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most....

Autism is often misunderstood by mainstream society. Colin takes us on a journey through the key moments in his life with undiagnosed Autism. The added struggles with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculus are all part of who he is....

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple-amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story....

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America....

Every dyslexic person has their own story. This is my story; my story of discovery. My story of taking ownership and realising that my so-called disability is my greatest gift This is not a conventional audiobook about dyslexia. This is an audiobook about you! Listen to find out more....

Katherine and Jay Wolf were a young couple living the dream in Southern California, but all was nearly lost when Katherine suffered a shocking near-fatal brainstem stroke and struggled to find hope in a life that looked nothing like the one they had before....

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour....

If you are interested in theoretical physics or just want to be inspired by someone who defied all limits, listen to Stephen Hawking: The Man Who Defied All Limits, and learn about the man who had superhuman qualities....

In August 2007 Dianne Woodford woke up to find that she had lost her sight overnight at the age of 38....

Shortly after his daughter, Leontine, was born, Christian Donlan's world shifted an inch to the left. He started to miss light switches and door handles when reaching for them....