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Book cover of 'Say Hello'. Cover is white, with the title in big orange font. The author, Carly Findlay, stands smiling on the right hand side of the cover.

Carly Findlay

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Tagged with ichthyosis, skin condition
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Book cover of 'Mantis Dreams: The Journal of Dr. Dexter Ripley'. Cover is white, with the title in the top left and the author's name bottom right. In the centre is the silhouette of a man in a wheelchair.

Dr Dexter Ripley

  • Posted in Fiction, Satire
  • Tagged with chronic illness, wheelchair user
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Book cover of 'A Kind of Spark'. Cover is pink and blue, with an illustrated face in the bottom right corner. In the waves of blue are drawn sharks, books and trees.

Addie Darrow

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Children's, Fiction
  • Tagged with autism, neurodiversity
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Book cover of 'Get a Life, Chloe Brown'. Cover is a pale blue, with the title in large red letters. To the bottom left of the colour are two figures embracing each other: one is a black person with glasses, dark hair in a bun and wearing a dress; the other is white wearing a leather jacket and with shoulder-length hair. Behind them is a grey cat.

Chloe Brown

  • Posted in Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
  • Tagged with chronic illness, chronic pain
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Book cover of 'Explaining Humans'. Cover is dark maroon, with outlines of biological cells in gold. A white circle on the cover reads: Science Book Prize 2020 Winner

Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Non-Fiction
  • Tagged with ADHD, autism, neurodiversity
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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.

Laura Fjellstad

  • Posted in Contemporary, Fiction
  • Tagged with chronic illness, endometriosis
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Book cover of 'Stim: An Autism Anthology'. Cover is white, with splotches of green, yellow, pink and blue. These look to be watercolours. The title is printed in the centre, with the editor's name underneath.

Stim: An Autism Anthology

  • Posted in #OwnVoices, Non-Fiction
  • Tagged with autism, neurodiversity
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Book cover of 'The Eye of the North'. Cover is illustrated with title and author's name in the middle, surrounded by a ring of ice crystals. Out of this spring tentacles and stylised waves, upon which a steam ship, sailing ship, and two children on a dogsled are drawn, positioned in the bottom left, top right and bottom right corners respectively.

Thing

  • Posted in Children's, Fantasy, Fiction
  • Tagged with chronic illness
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Book cover of 'The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue'. Cover shows a man wearing clothing of the 1800s. Across his profile, the title has been written in an illustrative font.

Henry Montague (Monty)

  • Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Tagged with deaf
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Book cover of 'All the Light We Cannot See'. Cover shows a coastal town with clouds in the sky \'96 it is dark and dreary. A sticker on the cover reads 'Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction'.

Marie-Laure

  • Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Tagged with blind
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