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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and... -
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence Gavin Francis 9781800810488
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.00THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: an uplifting account of hope and healing by GP Gavin Francis 'I cannot think of anybody - patient or doctor - who will not be helped by reading this short and profound... -
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71* WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013 **Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Prize** Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize ** Shortlisted for Banff Adventure Travel Prize **... -
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe Gavin Francis 9781837261956
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers... -
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & COVID-19 by Gavin Francis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A Spectator Book of the Year An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight 'Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257746
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257739
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.47Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia;... -
The Unfragile Mind: Making Sense of Mental Health Gavin Francis 9781800819757
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.26'Francis combines the precision of science with a profound insight into the human condition' GUARDIAN FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING AND RECOVERY Between a quarter... -
The Imaginary Patient: How Diagnosis Gets Us Wrong by Jules Montague 9781783785841
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48As featured on BBC Radio 4 (Woman's Hour, Start the Week), Times Radio, in the Telegraph (also as a bestseller), The Times, and at the Royal Institution. A diagnosis is supposed to give us... -
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Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & COVID-19 by Gavin Francis 9781788167338 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.67A Spectator Book of the Year An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight 'Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance... -
The Human Body in Minutes Tom Jackson 9781786481238
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that... -
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande 9781861976574
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between... -
The Brain in Minutes by Rita Carter
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The brain is considered the most complex structure in all of creation. But recent discoveries in neuroscience are now revealing the inner secrets of the brain - how it works, why it makes us who we... -
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie 9781786899811
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Luminous' The Times'Beautiful' Caught by the RiverBringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727648
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far by Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727655
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.24'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
Night Theatre by Vikram Paralkar
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'Morbid, and yet, you can't help but laugh.. refreshing, seductive and magical. If this book wasn't already on your radar, it needs to be.' Oyinkan Braithwaite 'I read this book in a single... -
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie,... -
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us Alice Roberts 9781848664791
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . ... -
Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor Aoife Abbey 9781784708474
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise' Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass.Perfect for fans of This Is Going to Hurt. Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we... -
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Are Medical Labels Doing Us More Harm Than Good? - THE MUST-READ SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727662
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75THE MUST-READ BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST AND MOREThe award-winning doctor investigates whether diagnoses like ADHD and... -
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An intimate journey across our surface by Monty Lyman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68- Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019- A Sunday Times 'MUST READ'- 'An exciting introduction to a little-known microscopic universe.' Sunday Times- 'A seriously entertaining... -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Dr Barbara K.Lipska
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain- Who are we if our brain fails?-... -
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Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor by Aoife Abbey 9781784708474 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.84'Heartfelt, honest, illuminating and wise' Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass.Perfect for fans of This Is Going to Hurt. Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we... -
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esme Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives... -
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection by Dr Jeff Rediger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Ground-breaking. Everyone should read this book' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreWhen it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we... -
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Sisters: Heroic true-life stories from the nurses of World War Two by Barbara Mortimer 9780099547747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.88On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training... -
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Charles Spence
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food'Popular science at its best' - Daniel Levitin Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more... -
The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat by Professor Dame Sally Davies 9780241969199
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for EnglandIf we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no... -
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule by Joanna Kavenna 9780141011981
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Joanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the... -
Sir Thomas Browne Read Paperback Francis 9780198994909
Booksplease Price: $19.34In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician,... -
Beyond the Hype: The Inside Story on Science's Biggest Media Controversies by Fiona Fox
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.23A Guardian Science Book of the Year 2022 'When science hits the headlines, Fiona Fox ... is at the heart of the action' Financial Times 'This is how to talk about science' Justin Webb ... -
No Way to Die by Tony Kent 9781783966059
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04The new action-packed international thriller from a crime fiction star: Richard & Judy and Zoe Ball Book Club author, TONY KENT.About the AuthorTony Kent is a 41-year-old criminal barrister who draws... -
Exiles: Three Island Journeys by William Atkins 9780571352999
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The Immeasurable World and The Moor. ... -
The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse Susan Macqueen 9781409129172
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan... -
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The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse by Susan Macqueen 9781409129172 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan...