19 best-selling nonfiction books like Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care by Jim Down

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Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

By: Jim Down

4.36

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care by Jim Down , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon

By: Henry Marsh

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in… read more

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2. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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3. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

Similar categories in James O'Brien's How They Broke Britain book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
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4. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.14

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

By: Ian Dunt

4.45

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more

Similar categories in Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
Cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy    Joseph

6. 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

Similar categories in Wendy Joseph's Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

Similar categories in Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game: A Confession book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. 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

Similar categories in Benji Waterhouse's You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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

Similar categories in Ben Cave's What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It

By: Chris Bryant

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDSCronyism, n… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bryant's Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
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11. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By: Polly Morland

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more

Similar categories in Polly Morland's A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death

By: Henry Marsh

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's And Finally: Matters of Life and Death book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. But What Can I Do?

By: Alastair Campbell

3.87

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Campbell's But What Can I Do? book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
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14. Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic

By: Rachel Clarke

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Clarke's Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it by Michael Rosen

15. Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

By: Michael Rosen

4.00

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with… read more

Similar categories in Michael Rosen's Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

16. 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

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis

17. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

By: Nick Wallis

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more

Similar categories in Nick Wallis's The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
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18. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By: Wes Streeting

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Wes Streeting might have ended up in prison rather than in parliament. His maternal grandfather Bil… read more

Similar categories in Wes Streeting's One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

By: Jim Down

4.36

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stor… read more

Similar categories in Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Suspect book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

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21. My Family: The Memoir

By: David Baddiel

4.41

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idio… read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's My Family: The Memoir book and Jim Down's Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

Jeremy Clarkson

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

Wendy Joseph

4.43

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Benji Waterhouse

4.48

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Joshua Fletcher

4.23

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