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by Lindsey Fitzharris In the nineteenth century, operating theatres were known as ‘gateways of death’, since half of those who underwent surgery didn’t survive the experience. It was an era when a broken leg could still lead to amputation, and surgeons didn’t wash their hands, or their tools, between operations. While the discovery of anaesthesia …
by Janice Hallet A drama production and a fundraiser lead to murder in this fiendishly clever whodunit, presented as a series of documents – emails, messages and transcripts – that hold the keys to the mystery. In a town full of secrets… Someone was murdered. Someone went to prison. And everyone’s a suspect. Can you …
by Kate Adie Kate Adie’s story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was ‘a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school’, she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world’s trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. The Kindness Of Strangers encompasses Adie’s reporting from, …
by Wilkie Collins An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from an Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English …
by Maggie O’Farrell A memoir with a difference – the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman’s life in near-death experiences. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. Shocking, electric, …
by Imogen Hermes Gowar This voyage is special. It will change everything… One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the …
