17 must-read biography books like The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by Katy Weitz

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The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

By: Katy Weitz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during a…

If you liked the biography plot in The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by Katy Weitz , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of A Midwife's Story by Penny Armstrong, Sheryl Feldman

1. A Midwife's Story

By: Penny Armstrong , Sheryl Feldman

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A gripping first-hand account of midwife Penny Armstrong's journey from student midwife in Glasgow … read more

Similar categories in Penny Armstrong's A Midwife's Story book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Outback Midwife by Beth McRae

2. Outback Midwife

By: Beth McRae

3.83

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Call the Midwifemeets In the Middle of Nowherein this heartwarming memoir of an adventurous Aussie … read more

Similar categories in Beth McRae's Outback Midwife book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown

3. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

By: Theresa Brown

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Timescolumnist Theresa Br… read more

Similar categories in Theresa Brown's The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Where Does It Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next

By: None

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in None's Where Does It Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

5. Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives

By: Jennifer Worth

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings h… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Worth's Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

Cover of The Dream Home by T.M. Logan

6. The Dream Home

By: T.M. Logan

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . . THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FR… read more

Similar categories in T.M. Logan's The Dream Home book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

7. 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

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • 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

Cover of Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

8. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live by Kris Hallenga

9. Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live

By: Kris Hallenga

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in … read more

Similar categories in Kris Hallenga's Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency by Stacey Dooley

10. Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency

By: Stacey Dooley

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

We are not OK...I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of m… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Dooley's Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist by Richard Shepherd

11. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You by Adam Kay

12. Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

By: Adam Kay

4.24

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Created and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million best seller 'This is Going to Hurt'), 'DEAR… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there had been a cost for calling an ambulance, I wouldn't have done it. I couldn't have afforded it. I would have let myself die."

-Adam Kay, Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You

Cover of Brutally Honest by Melanie   Brown

13. Brutally Honest

By: Melanie Brown

4.06

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines   … read more

Similar categories in Melanie Brown's Brutally Honest book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Prison Doctor by Amanda     Brown

14. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seven Ages of Death by Richard Shepherd

15. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by Katy Weitz

16. The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

By: Katy Weitz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cornish Midwife (The Cornish Midwife, #1) by Jo Bartlett

17. The Cornish Midwife (The Cornish Midwife, #1)

By: Jo Bartlett

4.11

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The last thing Ella Mehenick wants is the fifteen minutes of fame she’s found herself landed with. … read more

Similar categories in Jo Bartlett's The Cornish Midwife (The Cornish Midwife, #1) book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • medical
  • audiobook
Cover of Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard

18. Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story

By: Leah Hazard

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

________________No sleep for twenty hours. No food for ten. And a ward full of soon-to-be mothers… … read more

Similar categories in Leah Hazard's Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth

19. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

Similar categories in Tim Booth's You Called an Ambulance for What? book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Stitched Up by Shahed Yousaf

20. 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

Similar categories in Shahed Yousaf's Stitched Up book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. by Amanda     Brown

21. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

By: Amanda Brown

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doct… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies by Amanda     Brown

22. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery by Max Skittle

23. The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

By: Max Skittle

3.54

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful first-hand account of working for the NHS, both before and during the COVID-19 epidemic.… read more

Similar categories in Max Skittle's The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fighting for Your Life: A Paramedic's Story by Lysa Walder

24. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • 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

Cover of Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones

25. Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By: Jake Jones

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has s… read more

Similar categories in Jake Jones's Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Killjoy: Taking on a Macho Media Empire and Winning by Jo Cheetham

26. Killjoy: Taking on a Macho Media Empire and Winning

By: Jo Cheetham

4.38

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

'Fiercely funny, truly fascinating and inspiring . . . I was hooked from the first page.' - Mel Gie… read more

Similar categories in Jo Cheetham's Killjoy: Taking on a Macho Media Empire and Winning book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer by Evie King

27. Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer

By: Evie King

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘I’ve a body out the back for you...' Imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine… read more

Similar categories in Evie King's Ashes To Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe by Anna     Kent

28. Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

By: Anna Kent

4.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'The heart-wrenching tale of one midwife's quest to help others -and make peace with herself ' LEAH… read more

Similar categories in Anna Kent's Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth

29. 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service

By: Dan Farnworth

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontlin… read more

Similar categories in Dan Farnworth's 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Love & Autism by Kay Kerr

30. Love & Autism

By: Kay Kerr

4.29

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more

Similar categories in Kay Kerr's Love & Autism book and Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
Cover of Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor by Rachael Hearson

31. 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 Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

  • medical
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

25 best-selling audiobook books like The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by Katy Weitz

Transform Your Habits

Outback Midwife

Beth McRae

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

Theresa Brown

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

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16 best-selling audiobook books like The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies by Amanda Brown

Transform Your Habits

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

Adam Kay

3.91

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 Seven Ages of Death

Richard Shepherd

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

Katy Weitz

4.28

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