What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future
By: Phil Whitaker
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that i…
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1. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
2. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
3. 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
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- nonfiction
"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
4. 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
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- nonfiction
5. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
6. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
7. False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.10
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusia… read more
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"If there was ever a candidate to be patron saint of computers then it would be Alan Turing. Mathematician, war hero and tragic victim of homophobia."-Ben Aaronovitch, False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
"He'd obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear. I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon. "It's that vacant expression," she said, "people…"-Ben Aaronovitch, False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
8. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
By: Chris Broad
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more
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- nonfiction
9. Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.24
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . . Martin Chorley, ak… read more
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"A sense of powerlessness can seriously exacerbate stress,"-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
"Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in."-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
"The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner."-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty."-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)
10. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
11. 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
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- nonfiction
12. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
13. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
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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- medical
- medicine
- 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
15. How to Disappear
By: Gillian McAllister
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
You can run, you can hide, but can you disappear for good? Lauren's daughter Zara witnessed a te… read more
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16. Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
By: Oliver Sacks
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Gratitude andOn the Move, a final volume of essays that showcases Sa… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"I want a real book made of paper with print―a book with heft, with a bookish smell, as books have had for the last 550 years, a book that I can slip into my pocket or keep with its fellows on my book…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"But there is a fundamental difference between reading and being read to. When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydre…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"Come scrittore, trovo che i giardini siano essenziali per il processo creativo: come medico, ogni volta che è possibile, porto i miei pazienti in un giardino. Tutti abbiamo avuto l'esperienza di vaga…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
"I had no idea that this was happening―not only in the Einstein library but in college and public libraries all over the country. I was horrified when I visited the library recently and found the shel…"-Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
17. Keir Starmer: The Biography
By: Tom Baldwin
4.06
Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more
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18. 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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19. Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
By: Gavin Francis
4.07
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs … read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
20. What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future
By: Phil Whitaker
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that i… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
21. Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
By: Shelby Forsythia
4.36
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Comforting words and practical ideas for living with loss. Everyone experiences grief differentl… read more
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"In order to get “good"-Shelby Forsythia, Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
"There’s a misconception that grief is about “looking backward,"-Shelby Forsythia, Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
"Contrary to many societal teachings, there is no conquering grief. It’s impossible to “win"-Shelby Forsythia, Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
"We don’t grieve things that don’t matter to us. Grieving is just another way of saying, “I care a whole, whole lot about the person I’ve lost, and it’s hard not having them here."-Shelby Forsythia, Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
