Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

You must learn to hold in your feelings, Matron said, firmly but not unkindly. One day it will be your duty to support the family and other staff t...

'I think you have something here' I said, 'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever t...

Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the pow...

'Deeply affecting - a personal memoir that grips, harrows, inspires and, ultimately, uplifts with its vein of deep humanity' Philippe Sands'An extr...

''A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit'' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born...

'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a r...

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your ability to manage them could ...

Featured in New Scientist's Best Books of 2021'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' Publ...

10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for su...

A heroic doctor''s unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. ''A brilliant insig...

Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and h...

Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one blustery March morning. The cold winter air triggered a coughing fit, and she began to ...

In this clear eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors ...

Andrea Avery, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that thr...

From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he ca...

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...

Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Br...

In September 1955 six-year-old Mark O'Brien moved his arms and legs for the last time. He came out of a coma to find himself enclosed from the neck...