Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on internviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
Coercive Control – How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. ISBN:9780195384048
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
World-renowned criminology Jane Monckton Smith’s groundbreaking work is revolutionising the understanding of coercive control and domestic homicide among those who respond to it. Monckton Smith shares a glimpse into a world of coercive control. ISBN:9781526613219
Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes. draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to helps us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260
Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525
Living With The Dominator: A book about the Freedom programme
This book explains violent and abusive behaviour and places it in a social context. It can help readers of any age and sexual orientation to change their own behaviour and to recognise when they are being controlled. ISBN:9780955882708
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The author, a counsellor who specialises in working with abusive men, describes ways to help women recognise when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship ISBN:9780425191651
Operation Lighthouse: Reflections on our Family’s Devastating Story of Coercive Control and Domestic Homicide
On 19 July 2016, Claire and Charlotte Hart were murdered in broad daylight, by the family’s father. Luke and Ryan Hart, the two surviving sons, open up about their experiences growing up. ISBN:9781841883397
Remembered Forever: Our family’s devastating story of domestic abuse and murder
A shocking story about living under the terror of coercive control told by the family’s two surviving sons, Luke and Ryan Hart, which brings deeper understanding to the shocking crime of domestic abuse and homicide. ISBN:9781841883403
Light on the Horizon, A Community Response to Relationship Abuse
This book tells the story of how small acts of compassion ignited an enduring community response to relationship abuse. The Light on The Horizon charts the evolution of the charities Clare Haven Services and Haven Horizons. ISBN:9781739669409
The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offender Perspectives
This book opens up new areas of enquiry, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends ISBN:9780128092873
Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse Across the Lifecourse Understanding Good Practice
Spanning children’s and adult’s services, this book explores the nature &impact of domestic abuse and violence, highlighting the need for a coordinated ‘whole family’ approach. ISBN:978178592040
Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming
Based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls, Dr Jessica Taylor explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. ISBN:9781472135483
Out Of The Fog: Moving From Confusion to Clarity After Narcissistic Abuse
Dana Morningstar compares and contrasts healthy and unhealthy behaviors, strategies for getting out of the fog of confusion in abusive relationships, and into the clarity of building healthy relationships. ISBN:9780999593516
Dark Chapter
A defiant retelling of personal trauma, Winnie M Li recreates her own experience of assault and by fictionalising her attack, she ventures into the mind of the attacker and the experiences that shaped him. ISBN:9781785079061
The Right To Be Me: A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive marriage
A harrowing tale of a woman’s struggle to free herself from the clutches of an abusive eighteen year marriage and free herself from mortal danger. ISBN:9781784651671
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Award-winning journalist Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames an urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence around fearlessly reporting key stories from the front lines that explode the common myths. ISBN:9781912854851
Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
Controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest person, unless you know what to look for. This book will give you strategies you need to acknowledge the problem ISBN:9781626254718
Look What You Made Me Do: A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control
This book is a candid memoir and inspirational account of how Helen Titchener was trapped by a smiling abuser, not once but twice. It is a vital guide to recognizing, understanding and surviving this sinister form of abuse and its often terrible legacy. ISBN:9781509848751
It’s My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship
In this book, Dugan and Hock address various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. ISBN 9780415415194
I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence
This book describes the domestic abuse experienced by co-author Beth Sipe during her 16-year marriage. She describes the background and events leading to a tragic act of desperation that ended the life of her sadistic perpetrator. ISBN:9781452235301
The Domestic Violence Sourcebook
This book provides a comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence. This well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation. ISBN:9780737304190
From The Darkness to Embracing the Light
Marial Gorden writes about her spiritual journey of recovery from narcissistic relationships and includes emotional, energetic and spiritual healing practices that will help survivors of abuse to heal from betrayal and trauma. ISBN:9781694116130
19 Years
A true story, set in the north of England, through the 1980s and 90s about Ellie married to an abusive husband. Stripped of her self-esteem, will Ellie and her boys ever escape the coercive & controlling existence that is their life? ISBN:9781800160439
Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Hailed as ground-breaking work, Herman draws on cutting-edge research in domestic violence to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. ISBN:9781787388260