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The titles below should link to Amazon.co.uk but go through to Amazon.com the US site. You can go to Amazon.co.uk to order.   


Drinking : A Love Story
Caroline Knapp  More Info


Smashed : Growing Up a Drunk Girl
Koren Zailckas  More Info


Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life : Self Help for Women
Jean Kirkpatrick  More Info


Appetites: Why Women Want
Caroline Knapp  More Info

Growing Old Disgracefully: New Ideas for Getting the Most Out of Life
Hen Co-Op  More Info

The Beauty Myth : How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Naomi Wolf  More Info


A Head Full of Blue
Nick Johnstone  More Info


Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers  More Info

Alcoholics Anonymous Cult Or Cure
Charles Bufe  More Info


Fat Is a Feminist Issue
Susie Orbach  More Info

Fat Is a Feminist Issue II
Susie Orbach  More Info


Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America : A Memoir
Elizabeth Wurtzel  More Info


Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths & Stories About the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes  More Info

Books available from Wordpower - Edinburgh Bookshop


Good girls do swallow
Rachael Oakes-Ash  More Info


No Wonder I Take a Drink
Laura Marney  More Info

Why Does He Do That? : Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Lundy Bancroft  More Info

Getting Out
Ann Goetting  More Info

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Carl Rogers  More Info


Dry : A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs  More Info

The Change : Women, Aging and the Menopause
Germaine Greer  More Info

Person-Centred Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)
Dave Mearns  More Info


Restore Your Life : A Living Plan for Sober People
Anne Geller  More Info


Surviving Post-Natal Depression: At Home, No One Hears You Scream
Cara Aiken  More Info


Down Came the Rain : A Mother's Story of Depression and Recovery
Brooke Shields  More Info


Women, Drinking, and Pregnancy
Moira Plant  More Info

Women and Alcohol: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Moira Plant  More Info


Alcohol : The World's Favorite Drug
Griffith Edwards  More Info


Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher  More Info


The Food and Mood Handbook: Find Relief at Last from Depression, Anxiety, Pms, Cravings and Mood Swings
Amanda Geary  More Info


Potatoes Not Prozac: How to Control Depression, Food Cravings and Weight Gain
Kathleen Demaisons  More Info

Memoirs of an Unfit Mother
Anne Robinson  More Info


Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison
Dorothy Rowe  More Info

Rachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes  More Info


The Trick Is to Keep Breathing: A Novel
Janice Galloway  More Info

A Woman in Your Own Right (Quartet Original)
Anne Dickson  More Info

A Million Little Pieces
James Frey  More Info


Women, Anger & Depression
Lois P. Frankel  More Info

Beating Anger
Mike Fisher  More Info


You Can Heal Your Life
Louise L. Hay  More Info

Teens in Turmoil : Avoiding and Coping with Crisis
Carol Maxym  More Info

Toxic Parents
Susan Forward  More Info

Some novels with a drinking theme
   Denise Mina, Garnethill, Exile and Resolution  3 novels set in Glasgow
   A.L. Kennedy, Paradise

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