Intergenerational relationships: advice & issues

What makes parents happiest, according to influential new research, is good relationships with their adult children. This book offers much-needed guidance on developing a strong and enduring bond with children in the decades after they've left home. It's a crucial slice of family life which hopef...

'Finding Margaret' is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his birth mother.

The modern family is one of the most complicated systems we navigate as children and parents. In this book, Richard Hogan teaches you how to free yourself from negative experiences you have had in the past, to find true happiness and meaning in the future. Packed with fascinating case studies fro...

How would you feel if all the key relationships in your life were not just good, but extraordinary? Why simply survive when you could flourish? We all get stuck in certain behaviour patterns, or may find ourselves dissatisfied with our relationships - whether they're with our co-workers, friends,...

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by 'iCarly' and 'Sam & Cat' star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor - including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother - and how she retook control of her life.

Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she never knew in life. This is her last chance to piece tog...

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark i...

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark i...

Has your adult child cut off contact with you? How can you heal the pain and start to build a bridge back to them? Labelled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion...

From minor matters (tidiness, homework, sleep) to big and important ones (relationships, mental health, drugs and alcohol), teenagers and their parents often struggle to talk to each other - and talking is key if your young person is facing new challenges as they leave childhood behind. This book...