In DOCTOR DOCTOR Dr Rosemary writes with warmth humour & honesty as she recalls the stories of 20 of her most memorable patients from her 25 years working as a GP in south London. These include an eco-protestor with appendicitis an octogenarian nymphomaniac a teenager in labour with a baby she didnt know about a lonely ex-coal miner with a chronic chest condition & a middle-aged man who cant quite bring himself to tell her the real problem. Funny heart-warming & a little bit gory DOCTOR DOCTOR reveals the truth about day-to-day life as a GP. Heartbreaking diagnoses challenging patients & the strong bonds that are formed Dr Rosemary takes us from the waiting room to the consultation room & lifts the lid on what life as a GP is really like. ...

BBC Breakfasts Dr Rosemary Leonard shares a collection of incredible true tales from her twenty years as a south London GP. Hello this is the emergency services. Do you require fire police or ambulance? asked the female switchboard operator with brisk professionalism. I thought fast. I actually need all three I answered. Its not every day that a home visit turns out to be an eco-protestor with appendicitis stuck up a tree. But as Dr Rosemary shares in this book its all part of a days work for a south London GP. From an octogenarian nymphomaniac to a teenager in labour with a baby she didnt know about when Dr Rosemary opens her surgery door she doesnt know whos going to walk in... ...

Second chance at first love? When surgeon Ryan Dennison lost control of his car he couldnt keep the brakes on his marriage either. His injured wife GP Tara Fielding left him & even though he hasremarried & started a family hes never forgiven himself. Now single dad Ryan is desperate to prove to Tara that hes the husband she can depend on...now & for ever. ...

Pyjamas are just pyjamas. Right? Not when theyre Cosmic Pyjamas! Something strange has happened to Rosie & her brothers! Rosies new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery... Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the Doombuster & history is all muddled up
- & now the machine has been stolen! Can Rosie & the boys beat the Pharaohs & dinosaurs & will rice pudding really stop the Vikings?
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In 1910 Cora Crippen an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen an American quack doctor at their London home. During a search of the house Scotland Yard found the remains of her body under the floor of the cellar. The crime was probably the most famous murder of the twentieth century. Crippen's attempt to escape across the Atlantic with his young mistress Ethel Le Neve disguised as a boy fascinated the world as did his subsequent Old Bailey trial & execution. Nicholas Connell provides a complete & accurate account of the notorious ' North London Cellar Murder' compiled from the surviving files of Scotland Yard the Central Criminal Court the Director of Public Prosecutions & the Home Office. This book draws on a variety of new material including previously unseen official government documents memoirs of journalists who reported on the story in 1910 contemporary English Canadian & American newspapers & four important long-forgotten & extensive sets of autobiographical articles by Ethel Le Neve. ...

'...make me immortal with a kiss' Doctor Faustus is a play about desire: for the best in life for knowledge power material comfort & influence. Faustus sells his soul to the devil hoping to learn the secrets of the universe but is fobbed off with explanations which he knows to be inadequate. He is obsessed with fame but his achievement as a devil-assisted celebrity magician is less substantial than it was previously as a scholar. Marlowe's most famous play is a tragedy but also extremely funny. It involves hideous representations of the Seven Deadly Sins & of Helen of Troy the world's most beautiful woman. With its fireworks & special effects it was one of the most spectacular & popular on the Elizabethan stage. Yet ever since Marlowe's death it has been regularly rewritten. Its mix of fantastical story slapstick & raw human emotion still arouses conflicting interpretations & presents us with endlessly fascinating problems. This student edition is based on the earlier so-called A-text of the play with the B-text scenes included in an appendix. It contains a lengthy Introduction with interpretation of the play in its historical & cultural context stage history discussion of the complex textual problems & background on the author date & sources. ...

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn is one of the most convincing accounts of genius ever written. Thomas Mann charts Leverkuhn's extraordinary career: from his precious childhood to his tragic death
- when Leverkuhn reveals the horrifying price he had to pay for his achievement. Zeitbolm the narrator tells his friend's story against the background of the 1939-45 war which in turn acts as counterpoint to Mann's vast theme: the discord between genius & sanity.
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This volume in the Revel Plays" series offers reading editions with modern spelling of the 1604 & 1616 editions of Marlowes play arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources & commentary literary criticism style & staging/performance assessments." ...

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) a man of extreme passions & a playwright of immense talent is the most important of Shakespeares contempories. This edition offers his five major plays which show the radicalism & vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One & Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy & revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeares Richard II. Doctor Faustus perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil is here in both its A- & its B- text showing the enormous & fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York the texts of the plays have been newly edited & are presented with modernized spelling & punctuation. In addition there is a scholarly introduction & detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands setting up & running the field hospital at Ajax Bay where he & his Royal Marine & Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory hastily converted to treat incoming wounded
- both British & Argentine
- even though two unexploded bombs lay at the back of the building. Rick's diary of the campaign & its aftermath is a fast-paced & gripping account of war experience that covers the entire conflict from initial preparations & passage to the South Atlantic on the requisitioned liner Canberra to daily action reports & observations & interaction with the key players of the conflict
- Col. H. Jones Brian Hanrahan Julian Thompson & Max Hastings. Incredible human stories abound as Rick a trained commando dangles from the rescue winch of a Sea King helicopter saving lives on a daily basis. Yet he also confronts death in a thoughtful reflective & considered way helping others to deal with the trauma of war. Now revised & brought fully up to date this book is a unique first-hand narrative of a conflict that inspired individual & collective heroism among British armed forces inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home but which also provoked
- & continues to provoke
- fierce debate.




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