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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on... -
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 9780399590405
Booksplease Price: £8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590405Author Paul KalanithiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 9780812988406
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988406Author Paul KalanithiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
When Breath Becomes Air: THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by Paul Kalanithi
Booksplease Price: £8.70**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on... -
Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which they called the Grey Zone. The people who inhabit it... -
The Blink of an Eye: How I Died and Started Living Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard 9781473669369
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'As gripping as a thriller' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Heartbreaking and life-affirming' MAX PEMBERTON, author of TRUST ME, I'M A (JUNIOR) DOCTOR'The most spellbinding and harrowing story I believe I have ever... -
The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Reverend Richard Coles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.01The #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG'Immensely moving and disarmingly witty' Nigella Lawson'Such a moving, tough, funny, raw, honest read' Matt Haig'Beautifully... -
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir of Life and Love After Unimaginable Loss Jayson Greene 9781473673809
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss'Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild'Extraordinary . . . both heartbreaking and life-affirming . . . you will find... -
Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority by James Kyung-Jin Lee
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian... -
Contagion: Plagues, Pandemics and Cures from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond by Prof Richard Gunderman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases... -
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Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir of Life and Love After Unimaginable Loss - as listed in Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 by Jayson Greene 9781473673786 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.65Listed in Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss' Cheryl Strayed'Extraordinary . . . both heartbreaking and... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15One 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... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257739
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Unreliable 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;... -
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande 9781861976574
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.10The 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... -
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir by Lu Spinney
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son... -
Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority by James Kyung-Jin Lee 9781439921852
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian... -
To Exist As I Am: A Doctor's Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance Grace Spence Green 9781800814486
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74What does it mean to heal when the world keeps asking what's wrong? At the age of twenty-two, Grace Spence Green's spine was broken at the fourth thoracic vertebra. One day, she was in hospital... -
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri 9781472131331
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal' KirkusAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita... -
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande 9781846681325
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There... -
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain Dr Allan Ropper 9781805463221
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*Updated and revised edition, with a new epilogue and interview with Michael J Fox*'Engagingly written, informative, often funny' Daily Telegraph'Has the hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler... -
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.02CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The instant Sunday Times top ten bestsellerA Guardian Book of the YearAn Evening Standard Book of the YearAn Independent Book of the YearNetgalley's non-fiction Book of the YearA national treasure's... -
Death is But a Dream: Hope and meaning at life's end by Dr Christopher Kerr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has tended thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love, meaning and grace. They reveal that there is hope... -
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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper 9781782395508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.04What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering... -
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Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
It's All in Your Head: Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then life-threatening... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER 'POWERFUL AND... -
Your Heart, My Hands: An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons by Arun K. Singh MD
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.19Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a twenty-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream... -
Speaking of Death: What the Bereaved Really Need by Annie Broadbent
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'To support the bereaved, we need to get to grips with death.'Talking about death and grief has become something of a modern taboo. Most of us would rather avoid the subject altogether because it... -
Lost and Found: Why Losing Our Memories Doesn't Mean Losing Ourselves Dr Jules Montague 9781473646964
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NOW A BBC RADIO 4 FIVE-PART DOCUMENTARY'Exquisite . . . a book for anyone with a loved one with dementia. In Montague's hands this landscape is rendered more bearable.' Irish Times 'A profoundly... -
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed 9781838959548
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.09At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the... -
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Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul by Cheryl Strayed 9781782398530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.33Bold, brave and beautiful, Brave Enough is a gem-like collection of thoughts and aphorisms from Cheryl Strayed, the inspirational author of the bestselling Wild. 'Everyone should have at least two... -
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018... -
Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor 9781782119784
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of... -
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The Children Act by Ian McEwan 9780224101998 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.57Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies... -
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond by Dr. Bruce Greyson, MD
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15After is a ground-breaking book for anyone curious about the scope of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.'Absorbing and convincing' Daily MailAn... -
Face to Face: True stories of life, death and transformation from my career as a facial surgeon by James McCaul
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Face to Face is not just a brilliant introduction to one of the most exacting areas of modern medicine, it's a humbling glimpse of humans at their best.' Sunday TimesSo much of our identity and... -
The Man He Used To Be: Dementia and My Mad Dad by Robyn Hollingworth
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironically.'ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of... -
The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story' Telegraph by Dr Richard Shepherd 9781405947107
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Deeply...