American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy
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"American Desperado" is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal...
Taking Care O' Business
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T's family isn't exactly what you would call the perfect picture. His mother has been absent since...
The Good Father
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From the creator and writer of the Emmy Award-winning series Fargo, based on the Oscar-winning Coen...
The Lightning Tree
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This is a story of two young people who fall in love - and then life gets in the way. Ursula is part...
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
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In this novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell...
I'll Take You There
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Behind every good man is a great woman - or three. A New York Times bestseller: the kaleidoscopic...
A History of Violence (2005)
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and...
AJaneClark (3975 KP) rated Trust Me, I'm A (Junior) Doctor in Books
Oct 26, 2020
I found this to be a very easy read, demolishing the pages in a day (ok, I was sat round a pool with beer on tap, but still...) It was a well written and thought provoking account with recurring appearances of his housemates and colleagues. It humanises the role of a doctor and the struggles of long shifts balanced with maintaining a social life, family responsibility and just trying to exist.
Pemberton details how the NHS operates, and the trials and frustrations of a Junior doctor launched into frustrating, physically, mentally and emotionally draining role in medicine.
Reading this gave me a new found admiration for those on the front line working round the clock, whilst combating the very real frustrations of red tape, senior doctors and mental health.
I would recommend to any reader who enjoys this genre!
Moshi Moshi
Banana Yoshimoto and Asa Yoneda
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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown...
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Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
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These hilarious essays on life inside and outside a Zen monastery make up the spiritual memoir of...