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Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively. GET IT TOGETHER is a rousing call to arms for us all to play our part in creating a more equal society. Zoe believes that it’s not enough to sit back and watch as our NHS slides away from us; as the young and low earners are forced out of London; as hundreds of thousands of people nationally drift into poverty; as education becomes increasingly divided and as the wealthiest five people in Britain earn more than the poorest 20%. Zoe will address key questions including: has the NHS had its day; has an immigrant stolen your job; have you ev...
Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such expansive and conflicting expectations? As Zoe Williams explores, the madness begins before the baby has even arrived: hysteria is rife surrounding everything from drinking alcohol and eating cheese to using a new frying pan. And it only gets worse. The list of things you need to consider (as well as the things you never realised you needed to consider) is ever-increasing, and questions of breastfeeding, buggies, staying at home, schooling - and what your mother-in-law thinks you're doing wrong - take over completely. The task of raising a child has been turned into a circus of ludicrous proportions. Combining laugh-out-loud tales of parenthood with myth-busting facts and figures, Zoe provides the antithesis of all parenting discussions to date. After all, parents managed perfectly well for centuries before this modern madness, so why do today's mothers and fathers make such an almighty fuss about everything?
There are more pregnancy and motherhood advice books out there than you can shake a Clearblue stick at. This book is a straight-talking corrective to the sea of advice that engulfs pregnant women and new mums. It also considers such issues as the overbearing public guidelines on what not to eat or drink.
Fantastic series for animal lovers everywhere. Perfect for fans of Holly Webb! When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. She's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret! In the third book in the series, panda twins arrive at the zoo. How will Zoe tell them apart? Because one is sooo naughty, that's how.
A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New Yor...
'A book that every girl needs to grow up happy, healthy and thriving' - Holly Willoughby NHS GP and This Morning's resident doctor, Dr. Zoe Williams, is here to explain everything girls need to know about puberty - plus lots more. Growing up is exciting, but it can also be a strange and confusing time. This book will help you can ride your rollercoaster more smoothly! We'll cover the usual things such as periods and body changes, but also equip you with the knowledge you need to flourish and thrive in today's world, from self-care and recognising healthy relationships to talking about your mental health with confidence. Packed with easy-to-understand information, myth-busting advice and fun ...
Winner of the 2009 Rootstein Hopkins Award, Zoe Williams used the bursary to test out new ideas and techniques, resulting in her most ambitious sculptural installation to date, The Flight of O. Mythically-charged materials and motifs are repeated again and again, as is the recurring symbol of 'O', which, depending on its context, transforms from a simple circle, to an eye, an orifice, an egg or a ring.The accompanying book is a fairytale monograph, described in the introduction by Spike Island's curator Marie-Anne McQuay as 'a rich collage of pictorial references which includes historical documents that have provided inspiration alongside images of her own work and additional illustrations created especially for the publication'.The publication also includes Pearlescence & Patience, a short story by artist and writer Laurence Figgis; and O, a poem by artist and writer Brin Frost.Published alongside an exhibition at Spike Island, 1 May - 6 July 2010.
Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.
Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto the snow outside. People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these stories when they hit upon a dilemma, something previous versions of these stories were missing, and so they decided to make one vital change.. They haven't rewritten the stories in this book. They haven't reimagined endings, or reinvented characters. What they have done is switch all the genders. It might not sound like that much of a change, but you'll be dazzled by the world this swap creates - and amazed by the new characters you're about to discover.