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A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to...

Read by the author, Rose Boyt. ‘Hypnotic and propulsive’ - The Sunday Times ‘Thrilling’ - The TLS ‘Compulsive’ - The Observer In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, drawing on a diary she kept while sitting for him and...

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain and Emily Witt, celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker Fancy Feast gives readers a backstage pass to the nightlife and sex industries, examining our cultures hang-ups and obsessions with bodies, desire, and even love When Fancy Feast...

Farley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth...

किसी भी ऐतिहासिक व्यक्ति का जीवन-चरित्र उसके सार्वजनिक और निजी जीवन के बीच का द्वंद्व है। हर व्यक्ति अपने कंट्रास्ट में जीता है। महात्मा गांधी भी इससे अछूते नहीं रहे। महात्मा गांधी के जीवन में विचित्र विरोधाभास था।

Adopted at six months old by Dubliners Sean and Helen Gallagher, PJ spent much of his childhood knocking back Lucozade with the local alcoholics in his parents' northside pub. But the chaos that reigned for his first ten years was nothing compared to what happened when - having lost the pub - Helen took in psychiatric patients from the local hospital to give them 'care in the community'. Now it was a household of ten - PJ, his sister, his parents and six lost souls. Worst. Idea. Ever. Madhouse is PJ's riotous life story.

Jeannie grew up with autism, but no one around her knew it. Twirling Naked in the Streets will take you on a journey into the mind of a child on the autism spectrum; a child who grows into an adolescent, an adult, and becomes a wife, mother, student, and writer with autism.

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR From beloved actress and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli, her most vulnerable book yet offering wisdom hard-won through divorce, menopause, and generational pain, with a powerful message of self-acceptance and embracing the past with compassion. With...

In her bestselling autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a 30-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage fright.

Step inside the jury box and witness history being made in the latest smash hit true-crime series The Storyteller: Naked Villainy. This is the FIRST time in UK history that a full murder trial has been recorded and broadcast and this is no ordinary murder. Two scientists - two lovers - one killer, one victim and it took 45 years to get to court. Following on from the No1 The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul and Series Two - Violent Delights, crime journalist Isla Traquair does it again weaving the narrative with compassion and honest observation. Real interviews with those at the heart of the ...

The Naked Therapist – Stories from the Inside is a memoir that tells the story of a marriage and family therapist, thirty years in practice, and her circuitous, bumpy pilgrimage from child-woman to crone that listeners will resonate with. Unabashedly truthful, the author tells her story of how she happened upon a profession that spends much of its time polishing the image of “the knower,” and of her experience of herself as a pretender.

From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop...

Writing Naked delivers raw, skin-scratched emotion from a writer who has struggled his entire to life to look himself in the mirror and say, "Michael, I love you." In this debut essay collection, Michael Murray invites you to follow him on a meandering journey to witness glimpses of the moments in his life that have brought him to here— a place of solace and heart. Essays, each one ripe with story, work to understand his purpose in life.

John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidant of cops, criminals, lawyers...

What happens when a Canadian radio host gets together with a Nigerian actress, a bisexual Jew, a break-up coach, an American thought leader, an Indian men’s rights activist, a religious minister, an African American brand strategist, a Brazilian law professor, an African single mother of 21 orphans.... It is an anthology written by 21 brave and unstoppable women. It guarantees you laughter and tears, but more than that...it guarantees your freedom.

Read by the author, Rose Boyt. ‘Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not...

In "Bare," Raina O’Dell takes you on a journey that traverses many lifetimes all in one. She lays bare the realities of her life, from the highs of her success in business to the lows of divorce, illness, and bankruptcy. Yet, by moving through it all with fearless awareness, she discovers her truth, which she shares here with deep conviction: where we are today does not dictate where we’ll be tomorrow.

Newly divorced and determined to reclaim her life, Leslie Morgan, bestselling author of Crazy Love and Mommy Wars, decided to spend a year searching for five new lovers in this “highly stimulating story of a midlife education” and “steamy, liberating tale of self-exploration and...

World renowned and critically acclaimed Hip-Hop artist, Malice of the Clipse had achieved what many would consider the "America Dream". Coming from modest beginnings in Virginia Beach to acquiring a life of splender and luxury, it would seem to any "outsider looking in" that things could not be anymore complete. With a beautiful family, big home, sport cars, notoriety, and the respect of his community, who could have guessed the popular rapper was dealing with matters of life, both physical and spiritual.

Naked Introspection is a podcast for out-loud conversations about the things that people normally keep to themselves: real topics, real thoughts. Some episodes will be funny. Some will get deep. Some might be sexy, vulgar, emotional—however it shows up, it flows. This podcast is interactive. Jump into the comments with your take, respond to the episode prompts, suggest topics you want more of, or share your experience if you’re comfortable. If you’d rather stay unnamed, anonymous submissions are open—send yours in and it may get featured in a future episode. https://tally.so/r/5BzVz6