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Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic by Rachel Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.30THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERNOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA'The next Mr Bates v the Post Office poised to shake up Britain' Big Issue'If you're wondering whether to turn the page and read it, my message is simple: please do' Michael Rosen'A book replete with... -
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
£8.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588600Author Suleika JaouadFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
RRP: £19.99£13.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250751478Author T MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Breaking Through: My Life In Science by Katalin Karikó 9781847928252
RRP: £22.00£15.62From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determination through decades of obscurity and rejection – and her breakthrough discovery that saved millions of... -
The Alzheimer's Diaries by Susan Elkin
RRP: £9.99£7.36‘A third presence has arrived in my marriage. Ms Alzheimer’s – I think of her as a hideous, brain-eating monster – has come to live with us. Permanently.’ In April 2017, Susan’s husband Nicholas was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. This was followed by 28... -
The Autists: women on the spectrum by Clara Törnvall
RRP: £12.99£9.34An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls... -
The Magic in the Tin: From the author of the critically acclaimed THE BOY ON THE SHED by Paul Ferris
£8.40'Unmissable: please read this extraordinary book.' - Daily Mail 'Genius... A difficult, deeply personal story beautifully told.' – The Athletic 'All men should read this book - important and brilliantly written.' - Alan Shearer 'A fantastic read…... -
With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well by Kathryn Mannix
RRP: £9.99£6.89THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset' Sunday Times 'Illuminating and beautiful' Cathy Rentzenbrink ... -
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
RRP: £9.99£6.73'A SUPERB ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN * * * * * What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences when it... -
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD by Fergal Keane
RRP: £10.99£7.50An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda,... -
Listen: How to find the words for tender conversations by Kathryn Mannix
RRP: £16.99£11.47'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it' PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we're avoiding... -
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Dr Matt Morgan
RRP: £16.99£11.08It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time... -
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
RRP: £8.99£6.16'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES NO. BESTSELLER'Extraordinary...both exhilarating and alarming...fascinating' DAILY MAIL'Wonderful...a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMESHenry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human... -
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System by Ricardo Nuila
RRP: £20.00£12.69How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a broken healthcare system?'A fascinating and beautifully written memoir that reminds us what we have with our NHS - and what we stand to lose'... -
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive hospital diaries from the author of multi-million-copy hit This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay 9781529038620
RRP: £7.99£5.85The number one Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Kay's festive hospital diaries, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt - now a major BBC TV series... -
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay 9781509858637
£7.96A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' -... -
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
RRP: £9.99£7.36Now a major BAFTA nominated BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive preface by the author.Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death... -
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table by Stephen Westaby
RRP: £10.99£7.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from... -
The Prison Doctor by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: £8.99£5.54SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on BBC Breakfast Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock
RRP: £8.99£6.16Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the... -
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive hospital diaries from the author of million-copy hit This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
RRP: £9.99£7.36The number one Sunday Times bestseller - with a new, fantastically festive front cover! Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.Christmas is... -
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott
RRP: £9.99£7.12A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtFor more... -
Max the Miracle Dog: The Heart-warming Tale of a Life-saving Friendship by Kerry Irving
RRP: £10.99£7.50The Sunday Times bestseller 'Are you ready, Max? If anyone's going to help me do this, it's you.' The heart-warming tale of a life-saving friendship. In 2006, a... -
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 by Polly Morland
RRP: £9.99£7.12Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerA The Times Book of the YearWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the... -
Caring For Nigel: Diary of a Wife Coping With Her Husband's Dementia by Eileen Murray
RRP: £8.99£7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838361723Author Eileen MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Macnaughtan BooksPublisher Macnaughtan BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton
RRP: £10.99£7.30'Very funny and frank' Independent'Reads like Scrubs: The Blog ... funny and awful in equal measure' Observer* * * * * * *The bestselling real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph. IF YOU'RE... -
Sobering: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way on Drinking, Thinking and Quitting by Melissa Rice
RRP: £12.99£8.93'I don't know if I was born with it, caught it or bought it; I just know that, at some point in my life, a line was crossed: I needed a drink to get through life, to calm the nerves and quiet the head, and I became reliant on alcohol to change how I felt... -
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
RRP: £12.99£8.43"Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again and again." -David Grann, author of Killers... -
The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen Westaby
RRP: £9.99£6.89A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019 An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession's most eminent figures. Although Professor... -
The Madness: A Farewell to War by Fergal Keane
RRP: £22.00£14.58As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is... -
The Doctor Will See You Now by Max Pemberton
RRP: £9.99£6.73The doctor is back again and on the wards! Now in his third year as junior doctor, Max looks and sounds the part. But this time around, things are not at all as he expected ... The junior doctor ... back on the wards. After a year on the streets... -
Can You Hear Me?: A Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones
RRP: £8.99£6.70A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'With poignancy, humour and compassion, Jones invites us into "the invigorating chaos of pre-hospital care" . . . a panorama of experiences: the mundane, the ridiculous, the heartbreaking and the tragic' - The... -
Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor's Diary of Life and Recovery From Cancer by Doctor Dr Philippa Kaye
RRP: £8.99£6.28"It's cancer." Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient. She soon discovered that her years... -
Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis by Dr Jim Down
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands'An extraordinarily frank book laced with humour and self-deprecation' The TimesAs a doctor on the intensive care... -
The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
RRP: £10.99£7.30This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century.Munthe spent many years working as a doctor in Southern Italy, labouring unstintingly during typhus, cholera and... -
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: £12.99£8.88It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, had recently... -
Cross Everything: A personal journey into the evolution of cancer by Henry Scowcroft
£14.27'A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer.' - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies 'A gripping, heartbreaking, accessible personal journey through love and... -
Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story by Lysa Walder
£6.28A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang-raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young... -
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' – ITV's This Morning by Roxy Longworth 9781802792195
RRP: £9.99£6.73'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter relationships are, and never more so than in those teenage years' Gloria Hunniford 'Read... -
Born On a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
RRP: £10.99£7.30'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.'Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can perform...