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'The jokes spill forth fresh and funny- Not a book to read on a train: it's impossible to keep a straight face' - Sunday TelegraphSt Swithin's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour - and has just moved in with the Dean, who happens to be his brother-n-law.... More

This is an autobiography of a first generation Indian South African, Goonam, who defied all odds and society norms to go to Edinburg to study medicine. Dr Goonam returned to South Africa in 1936 and set up practice in her home town of Durban. This book records in detail her struggle to become a doct... More

More InformationVintage ClassicsGeneral & literary fictionISBN: 0099448424 Publication date: 05092002512 pagesB formatEAN: 9780099448426... More

Now that Dr. Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practicing medicine rather less congenial than he anticipated. But the ever self-less Grimsdyke resolves to put the desires of others (and in particular his rather career-minded cousin) before his own, and settle down and make the best of it. Finding the ... More

First there is the actor who confuses himself with his character. Then comes the man suffering from amnesia...and the housewife who has spent all day wrestling with her washing machine. This is all in a day's work for the local GP in a Kentish town. Yet having done this for twenty-five years Richard... More

Doctor Grimsdyke was only too pleased to discover that he was sitting next to the luscious Lucy Squiffington on his flight home. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - in fact it went rather too well seeing as how the long suffering Anemone was waiting for him back home. A fact Grimsdyk... More

On a sunny morning in June, the Dean of St. Swithin's Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt, yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale. Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving hilarious comedy wher... More