Undoctored — Adam Kay’s third book— follows on chronologically from his best-selling memoir This is Going to Hurt which was an unusual blend of bizarre humour and strongly-worded critique of the treatment of junior doctors in the British National Health Service. Amid the hilarious anecdotes about patients (suitably anonymised), Kay described the brutal realities of […]
Landlines is part travelogue part memoir about one couple’s long distance walk through Britain.
When Mark Hodkinson was growing up there was just one book in the family house in Manchester. Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain shared a space on the top of a wardrobe with treasured items which included his parent’s marriage certificate and Mark’s cycling proficiency certificate. His parents “didn’t see the point” of reading — […]
Amusing anecdotes from the front line of medicine form the basis of Twas The Night Shift Before Christmas. Not a book for the squeamish.
In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale delves behind the headlines that gripped readers of British newspapers In the summer of 1895. That year saw two teenagers — Robert Coombes and his younger brother Nathaniel (known as Nattie) — in the dock accused of killing their mother in her London home. The book is a forensic examination […]