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The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London. Rich or poor, aristocrat or human... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9781474602310
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.70Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military Hospital by Wendy Moore
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora... -
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match by Wendy Moore
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602303
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.54Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602297
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.05Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore 9780307383372
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307383372Author Wendy MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
How to Create the Perfect Wife: The True Story of One Gentleman, Two Orphans and an Experiment to Create the Ideal Woman Wendy Moore 9780753828953
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From the No.1 bestselling author of WEDLOCK. The Georgian scandal of one gentleman, two orphans and an experiment to create the ideal wife.This is the story of how Thomas Day, a young man of means,... -
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World by Dr Frances Larson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka,... -
Hysteria: The disturbing history by Andrew Scull
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.05The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells... -
Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors Carla Valentine 9780751565348
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology... -
North Carolina Literary Review: Number 32, 2023 by Margaret D. Bauer 9781469677668
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17This year's feature section, guest edited by Kirstin L. Squint, is historic, the first focused on Native American Literature of North Carolina. The feature section includes creative nonfiction by... -
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,... -
Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year by Lydia Syson 9781785761867
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.19'An intelligent, beautifully written story about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise' The TimesOceania 1879. A family of settlers from New Zealand are the sole inhabitants of a remote... -
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 by Polly Morland
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Shortlisted 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... -
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A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 by Polly Morland 9781529071177 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the... -
The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer by Jennet Conant 9781611854541
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the... -
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England by Caroline Grigson 9780198714712
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times 'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________ Born into one of Britain's most famous activist... -
Mr Peacock's Possessions: THE TIMES Book of the Year by Lydia Syson 9781471403699
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $4.15'Intelligent, beautifully written' The Times'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author' Stella Magazine'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined' Lancashire... -
Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness Selina Mills 9781350507210
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.14Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $11.282018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold... -
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37DAILY 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... -
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in...