15 must-read true crime books like The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. by Amanda Brown

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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…

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

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2. Confessions of a Gp: A Matter Life, Death and Earwax

By: Benjamin Daniels

3.71

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Dave Weinstein is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an AandE Doctor

By: Nick Edwards , Nick Edwards

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

'Despite the headlines, actually the NHS has just had its best year ever.' Patricia Hewitt, Secreta… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

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

By: None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

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5. Further Confessions of a GP

By: Benjamin Daniels

3.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less… read more

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

By: None

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

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8. Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

By: Peter Everett

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Must-read memoir of managing a morgue, dealing with death and murder to chaos, corruption and organ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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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10. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • 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

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13. 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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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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15. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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16. 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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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. 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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18. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • biography
  • true crime
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
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21. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

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  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. 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 Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison.

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • medical
  • medicine
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. 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

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  • true crime
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – the Inside Stories

By: Chris Atkins

4.34

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons crisis by the Sunday Times be… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. 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

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  • 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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26. 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

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Behind These Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival in Prison

By: Alex South

4.52

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

'The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. The Secret Prison Governor

By: Anonymous

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor (warden) … read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dirty Briefs: The hilarious struggles and shocking tales of a bare-knuckle criminal barrister by Dave Fendem

29. Dirty Briefs: The hilarious struggles and shocking tales of a bare-knuckle criminal barrister

By: Dave Fendem

3.99

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

From top to bottom – a shocking and hilarious journey through the legal profession unlike anything … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis

30. A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

By: Louise Curtis

3.97

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Moving, honest and inspiring – this is a nurse’s true story of life in a busy A&E department during… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain’s most violent prison by David Berridge

31. Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain’s most violent prison

By: David Berridge

3.83

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Return to HMP Parkhurst in this raw and fascinating account of life as a prison officer. David Berr… read more

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23 must-read audiobook books like The Prison Doctor: Women Inside: Stories from my time inside Britain’s biggest women’s prison. by Amanda Brown

Transform Your Habits

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

Adam Kay

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Gp: A Matter Life, Death and Earwax

Benjamin Daniels

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

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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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