Books
Brand has written a number of commercially successful books:
- A Load of Old Balls: Men in History (London: Simon & Schuster, 1994). ISBN 0-671-71385-X
- A Load of Old Ball Crunchers: Women in History (London: Simon & Schuster, 1996). ISBN 0-684-81695-4
- Mental (with Helen Griffin. HTV Sherman Plays series. Cardiff: Drama Association of Wales, 1996). ISBN 1-898740-41-0
- Sorting Out Billy (novel. London: Review, 2004). ISBN 0-7553-2336-X
- It's Different for Girls (novel. London: Headline Review, 2005). ISBN 0-7553-2229-0
- The More You Ignore Me (novel. London: Headline Review, 2009). ISBN 0-7553-2231-2
- Look Back in Hunger. The Autobiography (London: Headline Review, 2009). ISBN 0-7553-5525-3
- Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down. The Autobiography – Part 2 (London: Headline Review, 2010). ISBN 978-0-7553-5526-6
Sorting Out Billy and The More You Ignore Me deal with socially dysfunctional behaviour and draw on her experience in psychiatric nursing. It's Different for Girls looks at growing up in a one-horse seaside town.
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