Book clubs in Kingston upon Thames

Passionate, gripping. Raw at times. Captures grim reality of wartime France.

Fascinating and beautifully written journal of the writers lifelong problem with anorexia.

Fascinating and beautifully written journal of the writers lifelong problem with anorexia.

Funny, moving, turns a classic on its head. Everett is a genius in whatever he turns his pen to.

Irvin Yalom gives detailed and deeply affecting accounts of his work with these and seven other patients. Deep down, all of them were suffering from the basic human anxieties - isolation, fear of death or freedom, a sense of the meaninglessness of life - that none of us can escape completely. And yet, as the case histories make touchingly clear, it is only by facing such anxieties head on that we can hope to come to terms with them and develop. Throughout, Dr Jalom remains refreshingly frank about his own errors and prejudices; his book provides a rare glimpse into the consulting room of a master therapist. 'Dr Yalom demonstrates once again that in the right hands, the stuff of therapy has the interest of the richest and most inventive fiction' Eva Hoffman, New York Times 'These remarkably moving and instructive tales of the psychiatric encounter bring the reader into novel territories of the mind.

Huge historical and geographic reach. Never dull, full of adventure