Benjamin Gilmour is a paramedic by profession. This is his behind-the-scenes exploration of the working lives of ambulance crews around the world. Benjamin takes you on the road with emergency services teams from Australia, the Philippines, South Africa, England, Thailand, Macedonia, Pakistan, Iceland, Italy and Mexico.

The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs of the children, miraculously reuniting dozens of families.

Wild personal history meets irreverent survey of Jungian psychology in this memoir about growing up as the son of two shrinks.

A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other

When Anthony Macris' son was diagnosed with autism, he and his partner Kathy had two choices: do what they were told - and could afford - or do what they thought best. This is the tragic, joyful, instructive story of how they confronted the condition that changed their lives. Before the onset of autism, Alex was a vibrant, healthy little boy, Anthony and Kathy the happiest of parents. Afterward...(view full description)

From choirboy to cowboy ...In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen. Tasked with the dirty, disgusting and downrigh...(view full description)

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash between town and gown, between the hard drinking, drugging, and fighting of "townies"...(view full description)

'This is the best kind of memoir; there is a beautiful calm clarity that drew me in, and held me until the end.'; Georgia Blain 'He'll grow out of it,' my friends told me. 'He's so intelligent,' my family said. 'Your parents are mathematicians,' people reminded me. 'What did you expect?' What did I expect? We expect many things of our children. Most of the time we are only aware of these expect...(view full description)