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The brand-new, hilarious book from best-selling, record-breaking author Adam Kay. The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off, but there was one tiny little problem back then...doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked. It's time to find out why Ancient Egyptians thought the brain was just a useless load of old stuffing that might as well be chucked in the bin, why teachers forced their pupils to smoke cigarettes, why hairdressers would cut off their customers' legs and why people used to get paid for farting.

Have you ever thought about the fact that before the fridge you'd have had maggots in your margarine? Ever thought about what you might use to wipe your bum before loo roll was a thing? And what about what everybody did before computers?! In this third hilarious book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker you'll learn about all of these and more.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

Explore each organ of the body in this immersive audiobook edition of Kay's Anatomy, read by Adam Kay with a full cast of voices, including Mark Gatiss, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Nyman and Lolly Adefope. Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird; mine is weird; your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there and answer the really important questions.

It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different. He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology. And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital. Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter’s always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) – will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world?

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

This Is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him. Undoctored is Adam Kay's funniest and most moving book yet—an astonishing portrait of a life in and out of medicine, from one of Britain's finest storytellers.

In Dear NHS, an amazing list of inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.

What Seems to Be the Problem with Adam Kay and Mark Watson reveals the intriguing and hilarious ways the body can go wrong - and the amazing stories that unfold when the medical world tries to help.... In conversation with his (very health-anxious) friend, the comedian Mark Watson, best-selling doctor-turned-writer Adam Kay takes a scalpel to the bizarre past, often-surprising present and fantastical future of medicine.

When a noxious hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. But nobody else does, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. Eitan's colleagues are already treating him with suspicion following his recent breakdown, and are sceptical of his increasingly wild theories. When another doctor dies in similar circumstances, Eitan becomes convinced there is more to these deaths than meets the eye. Is there really a killer marauding the wards or is Eitan losing the plot?

The Stantons and the Nortons were families in the truest, oldest sense: extended networks of kin stretching across the mountains, everyone within hiking distance. They’d come from the British Isles and settled in the Appalachians of North Carolina during the 1700s, bringing with them their dearly loved songs and their clannish ways, their ties to the land ultimately becoming as strong as their ties to one another.

Gavin Scott é um astro do beisebol, devotado ao esporte. No auge de sua carreira, ele descobre um segredo humilhante: a esposa, Thea, sempre fingiu ter prazer na cama. Magoado, Gavin para de falar com ela e acaba piorando o relacionamento, que já vinha se deteriorando. Quando Thea pede o divórcio, ele percebe que o orgulho e o medo podem fazê-lo perder tudo. Desesperado, Gavin encontra ajuda onde menos espera: um clube secreto de romances, composto por alguns dos seus colegas de time.

Liv Papandreas tem o emprego dos sonhos: ela é chef confeiteira do restaurante mais badalado de Nashville, comandado por Royce Preston, uma celebridade da TV. O problema é que, longe das câmeras, seu chefe é um mau-caráter. Certo dia, Liv flagra Royce assediando uma jovem recepcionista e, ao confrontá-lo, acaba demitida. Ela jura vingança, mas vai precisar de ajuda para derrotar alguém tão poderoso.

Jax Tanner knows this is it - one last season of summer ball before his dreams of being a Major League draft pick dry up and scatter in the wind like the dunes of Silver Lake. Once a Top 20 prospect, he’s now a wait-and-see thanks to a shoulder injury. If he doesn’t literally hit a homerun - lots of them - the only baseball in his future might be the community rec team sponsored by his family’s hardware chain. But baseball isn’t Jax’s only unfinished business in Silver Lake. There’s also her.

Princess Kalei of Marama is moon-blessed, allowing her to resurrect her kingdom's loyal subjects. But when she's attacked in her safe lighthouse by a fiery pirate, her worldview is shattered once she learns what her power is really being used for. Determined to prove her innocence and willingness to stop her father, she has no choice but to trust her would-be killer to safely deliver her to the Vodaeardean princess. But who can she trust in when it seems Captain Evhen is not the only one who wants her dead?

Em toda a sua vida adulta, Elena Konnikova ficou sempre nas sombras. Filha de um jornalista russo que desapareceu misteriosamente, ela foi obrigada a se casar com um amigo de infância, Vladislav, para conseguir emigrar para os Estados Unidos. Vlad, também conhecido como Russo, é um jogador profissional de hóquei em Nashville que pensava estar satisfeito com seu casamento de conveniência. Porém, ele percebe que é muito difícil levar adiante um relacionamento não correspondido.

Alexis Carlisle se tornou conhecida depois de denunciar seu antigo patrão, um chef renomado, por assédio sexual. Com a fama, seu café se transformou em um espaço de apoio e acolhimento para vítimas de violência e assédio. Mas ela nunca poderia imaginar que a fama atrairia uma nova cliente alegando ser sua irmã e fazendo um pedido muito difícil. Sem saber como agir, Alexis recorre ao único homem em quem confia–seu melhor amigo, Noah Logan.

Astro do country, Colton Wheeler sente uma sincronia perfeita entre ele e Gretchen Winthrop... só que ela não está interessada em compromisso. Um ano depois de um primeiro encontro que não deu certo, Colton tenta superar a paixão e enveredar por outros caminhos da música, tentando retomar o sucesso de antes. Não fosse a magia do Natal e o apoio do Clube do Livro dos Homens, ele estaria sofrendo encolhido num canto.

Liebesromane sind auch (k)eine Lösung. Noah Logan hat ein Problem: Er ist in seine beste Freundin Alexis verliebt. Und das ist ein Problem, weil... na ja, weil sie eben seine beste Freundin ist. Er will Alexis auf gar keinen Fall verlieren. Nur, wenn er ihr seine Gefühle gesteht, könnte genau das passieren. Noah hat keine Ahnung, wie es weitergehen soll. Und verzweifelte Männer tun verzweifelte Dinge. Wie sich dem Secret Book Club anzuschließen. Die Jungs aus dem Buchclub sind der Überzeugung, dass sich jede Beziehung mit Hilfe von Liebesromanen verbessern lässt.

Echte Männer lesen Liebesromane. Findet zumindest Geschäftsmann Braden Mack. Er gehört einem geheimen Buchclub an, in dem Männer Romances lesen und diskutieren, um Frauen besser zu verstehen. Theoretisch klappt das bestens, praktisch stellt ihn Liv, die Schwägerin seines Freundes Gavin, vor ein Rätsel. Er ist hin und weg von ihr, aber egal was er versucht, sie lässt ihn abblitzen. Doch als sie ihren Job verliert, schäumt sie vor Wut und bittet Mack um Hilfe: Sie will ihren Ex-Chef bloßstellen, der sexuelle Belästigung für ein Berufsrisiko hält.