24 best-selling nonfiction books like Free for All: Why the NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis

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Free for All: Why the NHS Is Worth Saving

By: Gavin Francis

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin Britain's health service is dying. Gavin …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Free for All: Why the NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"

-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

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2. Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

By: Tony Hope

3.81

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Medical ethics is an area that has particular interest for the general public as well as for the me… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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3. The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)

By: Ian Rankin

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in… read more

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4. Fleshmarket Close (Inspector Rebus, #15)

By: Ian Rankin

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

The fifteenth Inspector Rebus novel from the SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 bestselling author. An illegal immi… read more

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5. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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6. 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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  • politics
  • 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

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7. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home by Jeremy Clarkson

8. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home

By: Jeremy Clarkson

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. 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

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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11. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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12. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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14. The Shadow King

By: Maaza Mengiste

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more

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"The routine dulls the terror."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"He holds no importance except what memory allows."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."

-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

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15. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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17. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

By: Angela Hui

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland

18. 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

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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19. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

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20. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

By: Mirinae Lee

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more

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21. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

By: Sharon Blackie

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new book by the author of the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, empowering w… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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23. 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

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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24. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato

25. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor

By: Malcolm Alexander

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Close to Where the Heart Gives Out is the unflinchingly honest and moving memoir of rural life in O… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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27. Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

By: Rachel Clarke

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people wou… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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28. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it by Dr Julia Grace Patterson

29. Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it

By: Dr Julia Grace Patterson

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NH… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Free for All: Why the NHS Is Worth Saving

By: Gavin Francis

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin Britain's health service is dying. Gavin … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • medicine

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Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

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What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

Raja Shehadeh

4.34

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

None , P.D. James

3.90

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Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1)

James Thompson

3.68

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Blind Sight (Kathleen Mallory, #12)

Carol O'Connell

4.11

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Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)

Colin Dexter

3.98

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