Morgan, Matt – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 12 May 2026 11:32:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Morgan, Matt – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 A Second Act https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/a-second-act-2/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=53399 Critical. ]]> ‘Combining  vivid storytelling  with  thoughtful reflections?  A Second Act  calls to something deep inside me, inside all of us, not to let the wonder of being alive pass us by’ Dr Kathryn Mannix, author and palliative care doctor

‘Dramatic and heart-warming’  The Times  

Dr Matt Morgan has met hundreds of people who’ve come back from the dead. They’re people like Ed, who had been hit by a bolt of lightning -enough volts to power a city for a day – and survived after receiving life-saving CPR.  

In this beautiful and life-affirming book, Morgan introduces us to patients who’ve experienced hypothermia, overdoses, heart attacks and transplants to see how their lives have been transformed by the second chances they’ve been given. He shares the important lessons they’ve learned, along with his own realisations about life and how to make the most of it.  

A Second Act is a powerful call to seize every opportunity and live life to the full.  

‘Morgan is a thoughtful and sensitive writer? [it] contains a lot of wisdom’ New Statesman

]]> One medicine https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/one-medicine/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=38880 Critical) shows us how much we can learn from animals, and why they matter.]]> It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to himself. This began an investigation that spanned continents, species and millennia.
 
For animal science has so much to teach us about human medicine. While some of the overlaps and parallels are obvious – we know how much DNA we share with primates, the first pig heart has been transplanted into a human – there is so much more that we have learnt from the animal world. For example, studying kangaroos, in particular the female’s three vaginas, has improved in-vitro fertilisation success rates. Watching how a giraffe breathes can help save the life of someone struggling with asthma. Investigating why birds that live in the frozen Arctic circle don’t freeze to death led to advances with treating hypothermia. Getting a ECG on the 150kg heart of a humpback whale was instrumental to keeping patients with cardiac failure living longer.
 
We owe animals so much, it’s time to focus on examining how they live and what we still have to learn from them. Better shared understanding of how our species coexists with millions of others can lead to untold medical advances, help both humans and animals and improve the world for all creatures from single-celled bacteria to a 30,000 kg whale. Who knows, maybe a kiss from a frog will save your life?

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