The Royal Free

  • ISBN #9781776922147
  • Carl Shuker
  • Paperback
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The Royal Free

  • ISBN #9781776922147
  • Carl Shuker
  • Paperback
  • Ships in 3-10 days
  • Ships in 3-10 days

$33.03 ex GST

James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the 'third oldest medical journal in the world', the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices.
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  • Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing - by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake. James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the 'third oldest medical journal in the world', the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices - the misplaced apostrophes, the Freudian misspelling, the wrong subtype of an influenza strain (H2N1 or H5N1?). His job is utterly boring, but - or so he tells himself - totally crucial: the Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body, a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world. In the London outside of the office, the prognosis for the body politic is bad: civic unrest is poised on the brink of riots. Attempting to grieve for his lost young wife, while haunted by a group of violent North London teenagers in a collapsing city, James is brought to crisis.
    • Format: Paperback / softback
    • Publication Date: 07/11/2024
    • Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
    • Country of Origin: New Zealand
    • Pages: 312
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    Equal parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing - by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake. James Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the 'third oldest medical journal in the world', the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices - the misplaced apostrophes, the Freudian misspelling, the wrong subtype of an influenza strain (H2N1 or H5N1?). His job is utterly boring, but - or so he tells himself - totally crucial: the Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body, a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world. In the London outside of the office, the prognosis for the body politic is bad: civic unrest is poised on the brink of riots. Attempting to grieve for his lost young wife, while haunted by a group of violent North London teenagers in a collapsing city, James is brought to crisis.
    • Format: Paperback / softback
    • Publication Date: 07/11/2024
    • Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
    • Country of Origin: New Zealand
    • Pages: 312
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