‘Doctors Dissected provides valuable and startling insights into how doctors think. But the book is more of a philosophy, a wide-ranging meditation upon the meaning of medicine and what we are losing in a target-driven NHS. The doctor and columnist Martin Scurr, and the psychotherapist Jane Haynes, have conducted lengthy interviews with doctors, mostly GPs,
‘Writing keeps me sane because it helps me to forget. Kindly editors send me books to review, and The White Umbrella, my first children’s book, saved my sanity when I was being roasted by radiotherapy’
The Observer interviews Brian Sewell for its This Much I Know feature. The White Umbrella by Brian Sewell is available
‘Not since Anna Sewell’s anthropomorphic novel of 1877, Black Beauty, a passionate plea for the good treatment of working animals narrated from the standpoint of a horse, has there been a novel on the side of animals written with such conviction. The nineteenth century Sewell’s came about, perhaps, from the physical disability following an accident
The British Journal of Psychiatry reviews A Humour of Love by Robert Montagu. Get your copy today!
The Times on Roger Graef’s event with Robert Montagu at Oxford Literary Festival and A Humour of Love. Get your copy of A Humour of Love today!
‘In the case of this novella about a sensitive man called Mr B who rescues a donkey in Peshawar, names her Pavlova after the ballerina, and brings her overland all the way back home to Wimbledon to meet his dogs named after women painters of the twentieth century, this feeling that the target reader is
Our Chairman on the Independent on Sunday’s review of The White Umbrella:
‘Perhaps there is a misconception about Brian Sewell’s book, The White Umbrella. It is meant for both adults and grown-up children, and should not be classified purely as a children’s book. Read to children of a certain age by adults is the ultimate
‘It’s well written, tightly plotted and great fun’
Amanda Craig on Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh. Get your copy here today!
‘It was what we did every day. It was accepted that I would always go to his room at half past seven in the morning until quarter to nine’
Robert Montagu on the abuse suffered at the hands of his father, described on Mail Online. Get your copy of A Humour of Love, Robert’s