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The super skeleton

Emma — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new series on a hugely popular topic – the human body! Next up, award-winning writer Dr Roopa Farooki explores the wonders of the human skeleton.
What do humans have in common with fish, snakes and birds? We all have a SKELETON: the collection of bones which gives our body its shape. With words by Internal Medicine doctor and writer of the acclaimed memoir Everything Is True, Roopa Farooki, and bright, bold, pictures by award-winning artist Viola Wang, this is a lively and charming look at what bones are made of, all the different jobs they do, what happens when one breaks and how children can keep their bones strong and healthy as they grow.

Don’t miss the other books in the series … starting with The Brilliant Brain!

The brilliant brain

Emma — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A new series on a hugely popular topic – the human body! First up, award-winning writer Dr Roopa Farooki explores the wonderful workings of the BRAIN.

Every second of every day, something is happening in every tiny bit of your body, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet… And if you think of your body as a machine, your BRAIN would be the control room – with billions of buttons for all kinds of incredibly important jobs.

With words by medical doctor and writer of acclaimed memoir Everything Is True, Roopa Farooki, and pictures by award-winning artist Viola Wang, this book explores how different bits of the brain work and (just as importantly) how they work TOGETHER… As well as sharing handy tips for looking after your brain!

Everything is true

Emma — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN‘A STAND OUT’ SUNDAY TIMES‘STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD’ RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN‘BRILLIANT’ OBSERVER‘POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE’ ADAM KAY‘YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ IT’ ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMANFrom the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor’s love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis——————————————————————————————————In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything is True is the story of Roopa’s first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients’ and colleagues’ survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward.

Everything Is True

Emma — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN‘A STAND OUT’ SUNDAY TIMES‘STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD’ RACHEL CLARKE‘BRILLIANT’ OBSERVER‘SEARING’ GUARDIAN, 50 hottest reads for summer‘The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read’ ADAM KAY‘A laser guided insight into what’s been happening in hospitals during the pandemic laying bare what we were all clapping for … Beautifully written, brutally honest’ JO BRANDFrom the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor’s love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis————————————————————————————————————In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything is True is the story of Roopa’s first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients’ and colleagues’ survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward. At once an unflinching insider’s account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, and the devastating story of a sister’s grief, Everything is True is an exhilarating memoir of holding on to that which makes us human against insurmountable odds.‘An extraordinary writer ? Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest – an amazing read’ KATE MOSSE

Diagnosis Danger

Emma — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Ali and Tulip know all about being medics. They know something about being detectives too, which is a good job because there’s a new case that needs their skills.A fun fresh take on the detective genre, full of excitement, humour, and medical know-how!