Jack and Eve

Wendy Moore

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Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst’s chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a baron and fourteen years …

The Art of Not Eating

Jessica Hamel-Akré

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A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian’A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject’ The Herald’Fascinatin …

Pain

Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

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‘Combines a career’s worth of expertise with a long history of pain treatment. For anyone concerned with pain treatment, or anyone who has struggled to manage pain of any kind, it’s an important read. …

How The Brain Lost Its Mind

Allan Ropper

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‘Hugely entertaining’ Guardian’Fascinating’ Mail on SundayIn 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpêtrière Hospi …

The Great Secret

Jennet Conant

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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the su …

Endell Street

Wendy Moore

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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora M …