Essential books about chronic illness by women
Louise Kenward on books about chronic illness that go beyond diagnostic criteria and paternalistic attitudesRead More…
Tag: books
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
This book of accessible and passionately-argued essays about chronic illness life and community is essential reading Read More…
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer
I was lured in by this wonderfully surreal depiction of four weeks spent at a rehabilitation centre in Budapest by a writer living with physical disabilities in a queer body.Read More…
Grit by Angela Duckworth: what, no spoonies?
A book about resilience and perseverance that doesn’t include chronically ill people? Max Plaise thinks the theory has some gaps in it.Read More…
Tantra Illuminated by Christopher Wallis Review
If you’ve spent any time in yoga, ‘Tantra’ or New Agey scenes, this is essentialRead More…
Arty books that help my pain
Three brilliant titles that help me reframe ‘immobile time’ as ‘reading time’Read More…
Surviving winter pain flares when you’re poor
‘Winter is coming’ is more genuine threat than TV in-joke for someone with chronic pain. But I refuse to go down without a fight.Read More…
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
Gothic and complex debut novel about mental illness and family trauma from an award-winning spoonie heroineRead More…
Sane New World by Ruby Wax
Fascinating and honest look at mental illness and ways to recover, perhaps too technical for the brain foggyRead More…