The author is a medical doctor and a poet: this book is both a meditation on art and life and a collection of snippets about the history of medicine. Written over twenty years, it moves effo... read more
H is for hawk-eyed: Helen MacDonald follows her sensational memoir with a collection of essays about the world around her.
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This is a journey as imaginative and cerebral as it is physical: Lees, now an eminent neurologist, used to frequent the Liverpool docks as a child, with his father, and watch the ships unloa... read more