12 best-selling true crime books like The Prison Doctor by Amanda Brown

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The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Prison Doctor by Amanda Brown , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

2. Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

By: None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

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3. Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more

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4. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

By: Adam Kay

4.12

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Twas The Nightshift Before Christm… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Who's that you can see in his suit of magenta? It's me - I've been soaked head to toe in placenta."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"Full marks to the anaesthetist wearing a badge that says; 'He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake'."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"ENT is commonly known as Early Nights and Tennis - a good choice of specialty if you like a quiet Christmas. See also, dermaholiday."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

"I ask why. then remember why most people do most things, and thus find myself introduced - at the tender age of twenty-four - to the sexual kink of mummification."

-Adam Kay, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

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5. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
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7. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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8. A Bit of a Stretch

By: Chris Atkins

4.21

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prisons. Where can a tin of tun… read more

Similar categories in Chris Atkins's A Bit of a Stretch book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Cilliers's I Survived: A True Story. book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

By: David Nott

4.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

For more than 25 years, surgeon David Nott has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous co… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"As the Koran says in Surah 5:32: whoever saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all mankind."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"The boy's death turned me into a person marked by war: it was the Sarajevo equivalent of a campaign medal, although not one to wear with pride."

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

"I remember the three of us – Mum, Dad and me – all being in tears as we looked at my grades and considered the consequences. I went out into the garden and tried to make sense of it all. Yes, I could…"

-David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

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11. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

By: Kerry Daynes

4.03

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"There is no them and us, it is just us."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

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12. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
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13. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's The Seven Ages of Death book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
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14. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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15. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

By: Neil Samworth

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangewa… read more

Similar categories in Neil Samworth's Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Levi's Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story by Lysa Walder

18. Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

By: Lysa Walder

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, … read more

Similar categories in Lysa Walder's Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Najgorsza w tym wszystkim jest zwykła samotność. Możesz żyć samotnie w nieskazitelnie czystym otoczeniu, mając pod ręką wszystko, czego potrzebujesz. I nadal możesz być zupełnie odizolowany."

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

"Czasami ludzie są samotni i potrzebują jedynie kilkuminutowej rozmowy. Nie jesteśmy tu po to, by być doradcami czy mediatorami: naszym zadaniem jest pomoc w nagłych wypdakach. Ale czasami aby pomóc, …"

-Lysa Walder, Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story

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19. Sleeping with a Psychopath

By: Carolyn Woods

3.60

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A Divorced Woman. A Dangerous Man. A Devastating Affair.… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Woods's Sleeping with a Psychopath book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

By: David Berridge

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It'… read more

Similar categories in David Berridge's Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor

By: Rachael Hearson

3.42

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Hearson's Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor book and Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor

  • medical
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

18 best-selling audiobook books like The Prison Doctor by Amanda Brown

Transform Your Habits

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Adam Kay

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

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17 Best audiobook books like Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer by David Berridge

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

Transform Your Habits

In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist

Sohom Das

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

Kerry Daynes

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

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