Bantam Press BFF? The truth about female friendship Cohen Claire

Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a phone call one summer morning, and finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposes, wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight. Suzy is horrified by this news but copes in the only way she knows how - through work, mothering, and carrying on with several ill-advised affairs • The consequences of her actions catch up with Suzy over the course of a sticky Sydney summer. She starts receiving anonymous vindictive letters and is pursued by Tracey's mother wanting her, as a kind of rough justice, to tell Tracey's story, but this time, the right way • A tender, absorbing, intelligent and moving exploration of guilt, shame, female anger, and, in particular, mothering, with all its trouble and treasure, The Truth About Her is mostly a story about the nature of stories - who owns them, who gets to tell them, and why we need them

How can you write other people's stories, when you won't admit the truth of your own? • Journalist and single mother Suzy Hamilton gets a shocking phone call one morning: the subject of one of her investigative exposes, 25-year-old wellness blogger Tracey Doran, has killed herself overnight • Horrified by this news, she copes in the only way she knows how - throwing herself into work, looking after her young daughter and carrying on with two ill-advised affairs • But no one can make their own story disappear, and soon Suzy's life is spiralling into chaos: will it end in violence or redemption?

The truth about Stacey is that she has diabetes, a fact she keeps secret from everyone except her new friends in the Baby-sitters Club. But Stacey's condition causes a lot of problems, and she has to miss a lot of BSC meetings. Can she find a solution before her new friends get sick of her disease?

Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships • Candid and captivating, each chapter is inspired by a classic, timeless story. Parents blow their straw house down; Rapunzel yearns for companionship but remains trapped in her castle. Couples strive to navigate the fall from Eden, the bitter taste of the poison apple and strangers in their beds • From dealing with infidelity to navigating our changing role within a single relationship over the course of a lifetime, Tell Me the Truth About Love sheds vivid light on the human heart, and its struggle to both embrace life's greatest gift and protect itself from pain

Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn’t seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody doesn't mind. She’s better off on her own • And then fragments of her past start to come back. At first her memories mean nothing to her but slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood • But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody begins to wonder if she'll ever know the truth about her past

Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of us? • Anthony Warner, author of The Angry Chef, has decided to get to the bottom of it once and for all. Is obesity really an epidemic? Can you be addicted to food? Can't you just exercise your way to freedom? And what the heck is a food desert? • You want the truth? The science, without the prejudice? You can handle it

Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you were told – or why we lie at all? • In this witty, whirlwind tour through the annuls of deceit, bestselling author Aja Raden combines psychology, popular science and history to explore everything you’ve ever wanted to know about manipulation and lying, showing how it evolved and why even the birds and the bees do it. From ‘big lies’ like the English gent who invented a South American country to pyramid schemes like Bernie Madoff, this is an eye-opening primer that decodes how we behave and function, and reveals how lying shapes our experience of the world around us

How many versions of the truth can there be? • In June 2014, Julia White - a beautiful and intelligent young woman - blows up a coffee shop in central London, killing twenty-four people before turning herself in to the police. Apart from publishing a potentially ironic manifesto, she refuses to explain the reasons for her actions • Clare Hardenberg, an investigative journalist, has been commissioned to write a biography of Julia but at the start of the novel she is on her way to prison herself. What has brought her to this point?

Do you believe some people are born athletes? • Is sporting talent innate or something that can be achieved through endurance and practise? • In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David Epstein gets to the heart of the great nature vs. nurture debate, and explodes myths about how and why humans excel • Along the way, Epstein • - Exposes the flaws in the so-called 10,000-hour rule that states that rigorous practice from a young age is the only route to success • - Shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not – like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player • - Uncovers why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captivating fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions • Told with fierce clarity, humour and urgent lyricism, this extraordinary book is both the haunting story of a personal nightmare, and a fascinating doorway into the darkest corners of our minds • David has suffered from obsessive compulsive disoder (OCD) for twenty years, and The Man Who Couldn't Stop is his unflinchingly honest attempt to understand the condition and his experiences. What might lead an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat a wall of her house, piece by piece; or a pair of brothers to die beneath an avalanche of household junk that they had compulsively hoarded? At what point does a harmless idea, a snowflake in a clear summer sky, become a blinding blizzard of unwanted thoughts? • Drawing on the latest research on the brain, as well as historical accounts of patients and their treatments, this is a book that will challenge the way you think about what is normal, and what is mental illness

Каррен Брэйди вдохновляет женщин во всем мире, и ее невероятный успех обусловлен ее страстью, впечатляющим деловым чутьем, амбициями и ее очень искренним, честным и практичным мировоззрением • Это история Каррен... до того, как она стала помощницей Алана Шугара в «Ученике» и венчурным капиталистом «Вест Хэм Юнайтед», как она начала в 18-летнем возрасте в Saatchi & Saatchi, а в 23 года продолжила убеждать Дэвида Салливана купить «Бирмингем Сити». футбольный клуб – развернул этот бизнес и продал его за невероятные 82 миллиона фунтов стерлингов 12 лет спустя • Сильная женщина рассказывает, как она совмещает личную жизнь с профессиональной, приоритетами, жизнью матери двоих детей и жены. Каррен рассказывает, как она справилась, когда врачи сказали ей после обычного сканирования, что у нее аневризма головного мозга, что ей срочно предстоит сложная операция и что у нее 30% шанс не выжить, и как это с тех пор повлияло на ее мировоззрение и приоритеты