{"title":"Books by Kathryn Mannix","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780008210915","title":"With the End in Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy RentzenbrinkWhat if everything you thought you knew about death was wrong?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow should we prepare for the facts of dying and saying our goodbyes? And what if understanding death improved your life? By turns touching and tragic, funny and wise, With the End in Mind brings together Kathryn Mannix ’ s lifetime of medical experience to tell powerful stories of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201214513330,"sku":"9780008210915","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008210915.jpg?v=1785658948"},{"product_id":"9780008435479","title":"Listen","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Beautiful …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of us have a conversation we’re avoiding. From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better – more honestly, more confidently and without regret. A child coming out to their parent. A family losing someone to terminal illness. A friend noticing the first signs of someone’s dementia. A careers advisor and a teenager with radically different perspectives. There are moments when we must talk, listen and be there for one another. Why do we so often come away from those times feeling like we could have done more, or should have been braver in the face of discomfort? Why do we skirt the conversations that might matter most?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy bringing together stories with a lifetime’s experience working in medicine and the newest psychology, Mannix offers lessons for how we can better speak our mind and help when others need to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Mannix’s ‘With the End in Mind’ was a Sunday Times bestseller the weeks ending 6 January 2018, 13 January 2018 and 3 February 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43201294074034,"sku":"9780008435479","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57697037320565,"sku":"9780008435431","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008435479_29264025-58ed-4ebd-914c-7da5b8f26509.jpg?v=1793083526"},{"product_id":"wisdom-project-exaiie-pb","title":"The Wisdom Project","description":"This is a book about how we live with ourselves and with our decisions and life experiences. It's not a book about decision-making (there are plenty of those), rather it's a book about living with the wounds life inflicts, an examination of the way we assimilate the damage and find our way forward, and an enquiry into seeing regret not as an enemy, but as our teacher, our life guide, and the quiet keeper of our peace of mind despite the troubles we have faced.'No regrets' is either the summary of a life never fully lived, or the insight-free perspective of a psychopath. Regret is an inescapable part of the human condition. Here, Mannix explores its place in our emotional responses. She examines our life journey from Innocence; through our maturing Experience that includes the maze of decision-making and perspective-finding that arises in every life and the despair of feeling broken by life events for some; navigating the emotional storms of living in an unwelcome new reality; so that we arrive at last, via a process of reaching Understanding, to a state somewhere close to Wisdom, where lies that safer harbour of rational regret.Mannix uses stories to illustrate the journey from innocence, via experience, to understanding and eventually towards wisdom. Some stories are 'faction', taken from her own life experience and from the people she has met along the way, appropriately anonymised.Life is full of slings and arrows. How do we respond to moments when we've been greedy, or angry, or cruel, or neglectful? How can we learn from our mistakes to look back on life with wisdom? This is a book about being human - with all the mistakes that entails. How we manage our regrets, or sins, often makes the difference between contentment and pain. Seeing regret as a 'win' is part of that process.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57495321346421,"sku":"9780008753412","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57682694373749,"sku":"9780008753429","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-kathryn-mannix.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}