Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine less congenial than anticipated. Porterhampton is suddenly rife with difficulties - as is being a waiter, or a writer. And writing obituaries is just plain depressing. Doctor in Clover finds the hapless Grimsdyke in a hilarious romp through misadventures, mishaps and total disasters.
Doctor In Clover
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine less congenial than anticipated. Porterhampton is suddenly rife with difficulties - as is being a waiter, or a writer. And writing obituaries is just plain depressing. Doctor in Clover finds the hapless Grimsdyke in a hilarious romp through misadventures, mishaps and total disasters.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine less congenial than anticipated. Porterhampton is suddenly rife with difficulties - as is being a waiter, or a writer. And writing obituaries is just plain depressing. Doctor in Clover finds the hapless Grimsdyke in a hilarious romp through misadventures, mishaps and total disasters.
Doctor In The Nude
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Mrs Samantha Dougal is against nudity. The Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour. The jokes positively spill from this elegantly written and languorously witty tale that includes Sir Lancelot, the Queen, a new building, and the voluptuous daughter of the trendy hospital chaplain.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Mrs Samantha Dougal is against nudity. The Dean of St Swithan's Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal's husband, however, is totally in favour. The jokes positively spill from this elegantly written and languorously witty tale that includes Sir Lancelot, the Queen, a new building, and the voluptuous daughter of the trendy hospital chaplain.
Doctor In The Nest
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Sir Lancelot Sprat is finding his faith in the British Health Service is taking a battering. It had already been a bad day - a call from Nairobi, a disagreement over the breakfast haddock, and a visit from Sir Lionel! All is further complicated by two ex-students and three ladies only too willing to satisfy a widower's sexual desires.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146956
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Sir Lancelot Sprat is finding his faith in the British Health Service is taking a battering. It had already been a bad day - a call from Nairobi, a disagreement over the breakfast haddock, and a visit from Sir Lionel! All is further complicated by two ex-students and three ladies only too willing to satisfy a widower's sexual desires.
Doctor On The Brain
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Dean of St Swithan'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 where the jokes are liberally dispensed and the mishaps all too common.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755131096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Dean of St Swithan'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 where the jokes are liberally dispensed and the mishaps all too common.
Doctor In Love
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075514693X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon develops a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill ? after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. There, he falls in love with his very own Florence Nightingale. However he soon learns he has a rival and sets out to impress!
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075514693X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon develops a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill ? after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. There, he falls in love with his very own Florence Nightingale. However he soon learns he has a rival and sets out to impress!
Great Medical Mysteries
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075514709X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Great Medical Mysteries is a hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia - mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all pondered with Richard Gordon's famed wit. The result is a deeply humorous, often bawdy, novel that explores the fancies and bodily functions of human beings through the ages.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 075514709X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Great Medical Mysteries is a hilarious catalogue of medical mysteries and trivia - mysteries of history, mysterious addictions and everyday medical mysteries are all pondered with Richard Gordon's famed wit. The result is a deeply humorous, often bawdy, novel that explores the fancies and bodily functions of human beings through the ages.
The Private Life Of Florence Nightingale
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147154
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147154
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This harsh and gritty story of Florence Nightingale does little to perpetuate the myth of the gentle lady of the lamp. Instead, through the eyes of his impassioned narrator, Richard Gordon lays bare the truth of this complex and chilling character.
Doctor In The Swim
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Dr Grimsdyke was pleased to sit next to the luscious Lucy on a flight. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - despite Anemone waiting back home! As if juggling two women wasn't enough, the Jellybone sisters then enter the scene with a troupe of female contortionists. Grimsdyke falls headlong into a series of hilarious mishaps.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755146980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Dr Grimsdyke was pleased to sit next to the luscious Lucy on a flight. Several hours in her company was bound to go well - despite Anemone waiting back home! As if juggling two women wasn't enough, the Jellybone sisters then enter the scene with a troupe of female contortionists. Grimsdyke falls headlong into a series of hilarious mishaps.
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017
Author: Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476670323
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476670323
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.
The Facemaker
Author: Richard Gordon
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Graham Trevose is a pioneer of reconstructive surgery, but this is received with deep suspicion by orthodox medicine. The ethical debates which perplexed medical men in post-First-World-War London are the same that face today's doctors over the issues of human cloning, animal organ transplants and embryo-screening.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755147065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Graham Trevose is a pioneer of reconstructive surgery, but this is received with deep suspicion by orthodox medicine. The ethical debates which perplexed medical men in post-First-World-War London are the same that face today's doctors over the issues of human cloning, animal organ transplants and embryo-screening.