Books

Boundaries, by Jennie Miller and Victoria Lambert, reviewed by Nicola Hill. I’m rather hesitant to publicly recommend the book Boundaries, by MJA member Victoria Lambert and psychotherapist Jennie Miller as Read more…

PHILPPA PIGACHE, former secretary and honorary MJA member; an author of several health books, has published her first novel. Philippa writes: “Adieu, Sweet Amarillis, is my first novel, and I Read more…

Former MJA member and deputy chair Tim Albert has published a book, Mostly we had it good: a baby boomer’s journey. The book is Tim’s account of life in the Read more…

New book sheds fresh light on continuing threat to mothers’ and babies’ lives Understanding Pre-eclampsia, co-authored by MJA member Isabel Walker to be published on July 1 Pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy Read more…

Most journalists dream of writing a novel. Two successful medical writers told the MJA at the Medical Society of London how they had made it happen – with a wealth of Read more…

Herding Hemingway’s cats, Kat Arney Bloomsbury Sigma £14.88 A review by Geoff Watts Some authors favour titles that spell out their wares unambiguously. A Field Guide to the Birds of Read more…

Medic on the Move, Dr Tom Smith. Andersonsmith Creative, £10. This is the third in MJA member, Tom Smith’s autobiographical series based on his life as a doctor-journalist-research-worker factotum. Tom Read more…

Science writer and broadcaster Geoff Watts reviews The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code by Franklin H. Portugal. Published by the MIT Press. If Read more…