For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Wendy Moore

From the February 2022 Issue

Call the Doctress

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

By Helen Rappaport

From the May 2021 Issue

All in the Mind?

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

By Suzanne O’Sullivan

From the September 2020 Issue

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

By Rachel Holmes

From the February 2020 Issue

Life Support

Breaking & Mending: A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion & Burnout

By Joanna Cannon

Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss

By Rachel Clarke

From the October 2018 Issue

Liquid of Life

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood

By Rose George

From the June 2018 Issue

Facing the Void

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

By Kathryn Mannix

From the May 2018 Issue

In Florence’s Footsteps

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story

By Christie Watson

From the March 2018 Issue

The Past is Another Person

Somebody I Used to Know

By Wendy Mitchell

By Anna Wharton

From the February 2018 Issue

No Respect for Golf Courses

Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Diane Atkinson

Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

By Jane Robinson

From the August 2017 Issue

Sense of an Ending

Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame

By Robert McCrum

From the February 2017 Issue

Priming the Pump

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

By Stephen Westaby

From the November 2016 Issue

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair

By Emma Tarlo

From the September 2016 Issue

Blessed Are the Bacteria

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By Ed Yong

From the May 2016 Issue

Long Goodbye

Beyond the High Blue Air

By Lu Spinney

From the February 2016 Issue

‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’

When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi

From the December 2015 Issue

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

By Alison Matthews David

From the October 2015 Issue

Hostess with the Mostess

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

From the May 2015 Issue

Top to Toe

Adventures in Human Being

By Gavin Francis

From the November 2014 Issue

Final Words

Being Mortal: Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

By Atul Gawande

From the May 2014 Issue

Decisions & Incisions

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By Henry Marsh