My Books

All seven books are available on line from Amazon Books, in paperback, audio and e-versions. Whatever you choose, I hope your reading brings you pleasure.

All author royalties are shared between the East Cheshire Hospice in Macclesfield and St Ann’s Hospice, Stockport

Being a Surgeon and Being a Surgeon’s Wife co-authored by my wife Jane, is an honest and personal account of the life of a surgeon and the effect it has on his wife and family.

Fascinating patient stories are used to illustrate what the job entails and the pressures that result; the long and arduous training, that first solo operation, the emotional ’high’ when an operation skilfully performed, goes well and the devastating ‘low’ and anguish experienced when a surgical disaster occurs.

These two books are collections of short stories all with a medical theme. Some stories will make you laugh, a few may make you cry and others have a twist in the tail. They feature patients, doctors, and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and joy. They lift the lid on the good, bad and ugly that I experienced working for 40 years at the sharp end of medical practice. Humour is prominent throughout

The ‘Doctor Paul – Nurse Kate’ series of 4 novels follow the medical misadventures of Doctor Paul Lambert from the day he was thrown, bewildered and unprepared, onto a busy surgical ward as a newly qualified doctor. Set at a time when care and compassion, (and a strict and domineering matron) ruled supreme in British hospitals, they chart Paul’s progress up the slippery career ladder and his on/off relationship with Nurse Kate Meredith. The narrative is interspersed with numerous fascinating tales of the patients treated by Paul and his medical and nursing colleagues.