Bedside Reading

Stuart a Life Backwards


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Join Tara and Kate Smith, A GP in Oxfordshire as we talk about the book that changed  Kate's career:  Stuart a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

If you are interested in Homelessness Kate has kindly drawn up a huge list of resources for further reading/watching

Fiction

Even the Dogs by Jon Macgregor

How to find a home by Mahsuda Snaith


Biography

Four Feet Under by Tamsen Courtenay


Autobiography

Pavement for my pillow by Chris Kitch

From the Inside: Life in a Women’s Prison- by the Charity Worker who should never have been there by Ruth Wyner

Down and Out in London and Paris, by George Orwell



Writing projects

We are here – Stories if Home, Place and Belonging ( www.homelesswriting.org )

www.haveawordwithyourself.co.uk   

www.outofhome.org.uk (photography project employing homeless photographers to document their experience during Lockdown)

www.thepavement.org.uk


homeless organisations (those mentioned in the book specifically)

https://wintercomfort.org.uk

Willow Walk Cambridge | Help for people who are homeless (riverside.org.uk)

Emmaus UK | the charity working to end homelessness


Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular Dystrophy UK | Muscular Dystrophy UK


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