Poppy met Ed about 20 years ago. At first, he helped keep her life in line. But very soon, he controlled her entire life. Welcome into an eating disordered mind. In this intimate and searingly honest account, Cambridge writer Poppy Wortman provides the reader with her guide to Ed – her eating disorder.
In the early 1970s, a group of impoverished students formed a rock band in Auckland, New Zealand, and planned their assault on the world’s music charts. For a decade Split Enz fought to be understood by audiences and music critics who often struggled to accept their madcap on-stage performances and innovative sounds.
In the early 1970s, a group of impoverished students formed a rock band in Auckland, New Zealand, and planned their assault on the world’s music charts. For a decade Split Enz fought to be understood by audiences and music critics who often struggled to accept their madcap on-stage performances and innovative sounds.
The Buddha from Birmingham centres on the lives of Arthur Swain and Dorothy May Swain née Cadman, especially their ten years of service as medical missionaries in China and India 1925-1935. It draws upon family oral history, documents and photographs, Western and Chinese archives, academic and missionary literature, and Western and Chinese key informants, to tell their poignant and thought-provoking story.
This print edition of The Two of Me tells moving story of how John Dybvig — widely regarded as New Zealand’s loudest man — turned his life around after a trail of destruction that wrecked his relationships, more than 100 jobs and his health.
The Crazy Lives of John Dybvig is his collection of books in which he shares the twists and turns of his amazing life – stories that will always make you laugh, sometimes make you want to cry and could make you wonder about your own life and where it’s going.
How to Survive Travel as a Loud American is John Dybvig’s comical account of his efforts not to fit in while living abroad. If you ever wondered how the stereotypical loud American traveller came about, you’re about to meet him.
How to Survive Falling in Love on the 3rd Strike is John Dybvig’s moving story of how he finally found true romance when he least expected – and how love changed his wild man ways.
How to Survive as a New Dad at Fifty is John Dybvig’s entertaining and heart-warming story of how his wild man personality was tamed by the birth of his children.
How to Survive as a Sports Jock with Attitude is John Dybvig’s hilarious account of his chaotic career as a professional basketball coach. He’s started riots, nearly frozen to death and been banned for life from one town in his efforts to coach championship teams.
