Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis
By: Jim Down
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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2. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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3. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
By: Michael J. Collins
4.28
Format: 320 pages,
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4. Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
By: Stephen Westaby
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remar… read more
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5. 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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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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- nonfiction
- history
- 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
7. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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8. That Night
By: Gillian McAllister
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. That night everything changed. The nig… read more
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9. 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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10. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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11. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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12. 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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13. 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
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14. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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15. Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
By: Matt Morgan
4.07
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of a…"-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life
16. 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
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17. 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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18. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3)
By: Anna McNuff
4.46
Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition
Why take the shortest, most direct route through life, when you could choose the wiggliest, most mo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
By: Jenny Graham
4.56
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman's solo lap of the planet by… read more
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20. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2)
By: Hazel Prior
4.10
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . . Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly nin… read more
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22. Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
By: Aoife Abbey
3.91
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over ou… read more
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"When relatives and friends grieve for their loved ones, they grieve for that patient: who they were and what they meant to their lives. When doctors find themselves unexpectedly ambushed by grief ove…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
"I don't believe the sickest people that I meet throughout my day at work are in the business of having outlandish desires, either. I don't think they are staring at the square-tiled ceiling of the in…"-Aoife Abbey, Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
23. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more
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24. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the p… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
25. Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
By: Emily Dean
4.24
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-c… read more
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"It was simply not possible for someone to be watching Peep Show one day and cease to exist the next."-Emily Dean, Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog
26. The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless
By: Christina Lamb
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
‘There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or m… read more
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27. 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
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28. Frontline: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease
By: Tony Redmond
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One heroic doctor’s unflinchingly honest and visceral account of the impossible ethical choices req… read more
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29. I Carried a Watermelon: Dirty Dancing and Me
By: Katy Brand
3.94
Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition
I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing, a warm, witty and accessible look at how K… read more
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30. Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis
By: Jim Down
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition
'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with i… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Ministry of Bodies
By: Seamus O'Mahony
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In The Ministry of Bodies, Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of life in a modern hospital over t… read more
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