James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three. This work presents an account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the underground, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary.

Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.

* The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look

Alice is 15 years old and appears a perfectly normal teenager; she diets, goes out with boys, and gets good marks at school. Without her parents being properly aware, she tries drugs and falls into addiction. The difference between Alice and a lot of other kids on drugs is that Alice keeps a diary.

Generation X poster girl for depression ( Prozac Nation ) and celebrator of difficult women ( Bitch ), Elizabeth Wurtzel offers a searingly honest tale of her descent into Ritalin addiction and her eventual recovery.

A forthright, one-of-a-kind account of a father's struggle to overcome his son's meth addiction.

A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses.

Rachel Walsh is twenty-seven and is the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarched to the Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic.

Trainspotting

The day Koren turned fourteen she tasted alcohol for the first time. At fifteen she was piecing together forgotten fragments of drink, men and misplaced clothes. This is the story of a young woman coming of age within a society that finds it easier to turn a blind eye to binge-drinking than address the problem head on.

The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Revitalised with a new jacket and an anecdote filled P.S. section.

A modern day fable set in New York. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nurtures fanstasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with his girlfriend plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Their eyes fixed on an impossible future, they move blindly onwards, contorting their lives into coils of self-deception as they struggle to keep their dreams alive.

A teenage novel that tells the true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction.

Caroline Knapp was a successful woman with her own apartment, a steady boyfriend and a career in newspaper journalism. Beneath her polished veneer was a person so broken and insecure she drank herself into a stupor every night. This is her account of her twenty year love affair with alcohol.

My Friend Leonard is the story of an extraordinary friendship formed in the most unlikely circumstances

An account, both harrowing and amusing, of the author's dependence on Prozac, prescribed for her after a series of suicide attempts and breakdowns. She describes her experiences and her determination to get herself off medication.

One of Philip K. Dicks greatest novels