Glittering a Turd: Finding joy (when it's all gone tits up)
*An updated edition for 2026*
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025
‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY
‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN
‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH
‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.’ Sofie Hagen
‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard
‘An intimate, beautifully told memoir’ Elinor Cleghorn
‘Dr Chloe helped me understand how to grieve and keep living, how to find the light in the darkest of days. I know this book will be of great comfort to many.’ Zoe Ball
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN
‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE
A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.
‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink
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‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell
‘Gripping’ Observer
‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail
‘An amazing story, powerfully told’ Mail on Sunday
From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.
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A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.
A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games.