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Book cover of 'Please Read This Leaflet Carefully'. Cover is bright yellow, with the title of the book written in black with arrows at different places, drawn by an ice skating figure.

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

  • Posted in Contemporary, Fiction
  • Tagged with chronic illness, endometriosis
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Cover of 'How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion'. A white background with the title in large purple letters. In the middle a small blue butterfly is just over the top of one of the letters.

How to Be Sick: Your Pocket Companion

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Non-Fiction, Self-help
  • Tagged with chronic illness
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Cover of 'History of the Rain'. A painting of waves in different shades of blue with a leaping salmon in pink at the bottom and the title in white over the top in the center.

History of the Rain

  • Posted in Contemporary, Fiction
  • Tagged with blood disorder
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Cover of 'The Uninhabitable'. A picture of a woman's back, with an undone zip exposing her spine and organs. She is holding her hair out of the way in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The title is above in blue.

The Uninhabitable

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Poetry
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Book cover of 'The Body in the Boot'. A picture of a street with cars parked in the dark, with a red glowing street light. The title is over the top in white apart from the word boot which is in red.

The Mac Maguire Detective Mysteries

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Fiction, Mystery
  • Tagged with chronic pain, spinal condition
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Book Cover of 'Neon Hearts'. A picture of a woman drenched in blue and red neon light. The book title is in white over the top, the word 'Neon' is made out of glowing light tubes.

Neon Hearts

  • Posted in Fiction, Romance
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Book Cover of 'Disability Visibility'. 5 overlapping triangles in different colours with the book title and authors name in black in front

Disability Visibility

  • Posted in Non-Fiction
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Book cover of 'The World Between Us'. A blue drawing of a woman lying in water with the title of the book in large orange letters

The World Between Us

  • Posted in Fiction, Young Adult
  • Tagged with chronic illness
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Book cover of 'Blind Man's Bluff'. Cover is of the author stood among trees, obscured by a large black spot that contains the title and author's name.

Blind Man’s Bluff

  • Posted in Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Tagged with blind, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
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Cover of 'The Girl in the Window'. Over the top of a red background, a silhouette of a girl in a window above the title of the book, both in purple.

The Girl in the Window

  • Posted in Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
  • Tagged with chronic illness, ME/CFS
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