The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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1. It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
By: Suzanne O'Sullivan
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Even if medical tests cannot explain your pain or tiredness or disability, it does not lessen your… read more
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2. 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
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- memoir
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- audiobook
3. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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4. 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
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"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
5. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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- mental health
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- memoir
- audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
6. You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
By: Benji Waterhouse
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Humane, hilarious, and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and… read more
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- audiobook
7. In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist
By: Sohom Das
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that h… read more
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- audiobook
8. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
By: Ben Cave
4.26
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more
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9. 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
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"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
10. The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
By: Gwen Adshead
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure ho… read more
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- crime
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11. 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
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12. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
By: Sue Black
4.31
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more
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"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
13. In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law
By: Sarah Langford
4.08
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarah Langford is a barrister. Her job is to stand in court representing the mad and the bad, the v… read more
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14. Jak człowiek staje się mordercą. Mroczne opowieści psychiatry sądowego
By: Richard Taylor
3.94
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
'An intricate and brilliantly written psychiatric perspective on the most perplexing of crimes' Ker… read more
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- crime
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15. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood
By: Kerry Daynes
4.35
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more
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16. Stitched Up
By: Shahed Yousaf
4.18
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
Why would anyone want to work with thieves, murderers and rapists? Told from the inside out, th… read more
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17. Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.
By: Rebecca Myers
3.97
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he want… read more
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18. A Love That Kills: Stories of Forensic Psychology
By: Anna Motz
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
'An empathetic and necessary corrective to the stereotypes peddled by so many sensational true crim… read more
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19. Dangerous Minds: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence
By: Taj Nathan
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
' Exceptional . . . This thoughtful and engrossing book is as much about law as it is about minds' … read more
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20. A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair
By: Belinda Black
4.49
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and o… read more
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21. My Brother the Killer: How a Boy Became a Murderer
By: Alix Sharkey
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journ… read more
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