Addicts Diary

'The most honest account of addiction I have read. This is an invaluable book'. – Tony Adams. What is an addict? Who is susceptible, and why? How can I recover from addiction? Growing up in a fractious and dysfunctional family, life wasn’t easy for the Secret Drug Addict. By the time he was...

The brutally brilliant prequel to Diary of an Oxygen Thief. Shame is an acquired taste. Nobody knows this better than the young anonymous narrator subjected to repeated instances of sexual abuse, parental beatings and gleefully administered psychological cruelty. After some formative missteps in...

A cry for help that offers hope to all addicts This book tells the story of the Spirit Andre K, who in 1995, was given permission to tell his story, after undergoing years of recovery treatment in the Spirit realm, which included participating in a weekly seance meeting held by a group of incarnate mediums. In this group, through the medium Maria Gorete Newton, he described his tragic death by drug overdose, which took place in 1975, while he was still a teenager living in Zurich, Switzerland. It is a richly descriptive narrative for parents, children and society, offering a glimpse of the ...

It’s the 1980s and David has just started secondary school. He’s becoming a teenager, while hanging onto the rituals of childhood, particularly his addiction to Doctor Who: sharing the books with his best friend and neighbour, Robert, and watching the TV show. But adolescence is as strange and alien to David as anything the good Doctor encountered, so he’s mystified when Robert begins to reject his hero in favour of girls, free weights and new music.

These stories are based on true-life experiences, real people, and my naughty fantasies. Find out how I first became addicted, why one woman bought a stranger's pair of dirty panties for me on a date, and how I ended up sitting with two sisters in a coffee shop in London talking about which of them had the most arousing scent. 1. The Rush Risk-taking is the norm for a panty addict, but who would have thought that being caught red-handed could be so much fun? Alastair seizes the opportunity to worship his beautiful housemate's dirty underwear. This forbidden moment of pleasure unexpectedly ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘An act of intimate storytelling’ VOGUE ‘A profound, rich document’ NEW STATESMAN A deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of...