The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson meets everybody from a Broadmoor inmate who swears he faked a mental disorder to get a lighter sentence but is now stuck there to the influential psychologist who developed the industry standard Psychopath Test and who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths. Combining Jon's trademark humour, charm and investigative incision, The Psychopath Test is a deeply honest book unearthing dangerous truths and asking serious questions about how we define normality in a world where we are increasingly judged by our maddest edges.

Lessons in Letting Go - Corinne Grant

It took a year to drag myself out of the mess. A year in which I lost my dearest friend and then promptly lost my way. A year in which I ran away overseas, came back and then ran away again. A year in which I learnt to let go, learnt to forgive and learnt to grow up. It was a big year. It was a lot of work. And I head-butted two people. Accidentally.

Lessons in Letting Go is an honest, uproariously funny and sometimes moving memoir of the year in which Corinne Grant decides to do something about her hoarding. From every scrunchie she's ever owned, to every pencil case and magazine, it's time for it all to go. Problem is, getting rid of the stuff turns out to be much harder than she initially thought. This delightful memoir is about hoarding and about how the things we hold on to can end up dictating our lives. Warm, funny, candid and insightful, Lessons in Letting Go is about the pain - but also the necessity and the joy - in learning to let go.

Naked - David Sedaris

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 face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he brushes cigarette ashes from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self- effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving himself both under suspicion and over dressed.

Stuart, A life Backwards - Alexander Masters

This is the life of Stuart Short, A thief, a psycho, a drug addict, a homeless man. This is his life, told backwards.  We discover the failings of the system, how people become homeless and the faults their.  A wonderful insight into how people just fall through the net and how the council and governments just let it happen.

I Miss Mummy

I Miss Mummy is the story of Alice, a four year old girl that comes to Cathy's home as her foster child.  She is well kept, well behaved and very sweet, not your obvious care child.  She doesn't understand why she can't stay with her grandparent's and nor does Cathy, it doesn't make sense.

Notes From An Exhibition - Patrick Gale

When Rachel dies in the attic, the family are distraught. Rachel crippled by mental health, and a mother of four, looses her self in her art. She is an enigma to her family, no one knowing her past or who she really is.  After her death they slowly uncover the truth, as well as finding out about the lives of her children.

Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

When Augusten was twelve his mother gave him away to his psychiatrist, and a man who may have benefited from a touch of therapy himself. This is the story of the bizarre years Augusten spent in the doctors dilapidated Victorian mansion, getting to know the pedophile in-paitent who lives in the shed, eating Valium tablets like other kids eat sweeties and resorting to vintage electric shock therapy machine to liven up those quieter moments.