UNDER THE KNIFE

Life Lessons from the Operating Theatre

LIZ O’RIORDAN

A unique medical memoir: the inspiring story of a woman who experienced breast cancer both as a surgeon and as a patient

Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field.

But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man’s world. In addition to this highpowered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. By revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.

‘Gave me a real insight into what it takes to become a surgeon, and how hard it is to be a breast cancer patient when you know far too much about it’ Jane

Garvey

NON-FICTION

Title: Under the Knife

Pub date: 06/07/2023

Format: Paperback

Price: £12.99

ISBN: 978-1-80018-241-7

Rights: World English, Audio

Liz O’Riordan trained for twenty years until she made it as a consultant breast surgeon in 2013. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she had to retire in 2018. She went on to write The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control to give women answers to all the questions she had as a patient. She also hosts the podcast Don’t Ignore the Elephant. @Liz_ORiordan

42

The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

KEVIN JON DAVIES (ED.)

A publishing event: hundreds of artefacts from the archive of Douglas Adams, printed for the first time

When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and these artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time, including the modern smartphone and ebooks.

42 also features archival material of his most celebrated works –including early scribbles from the development of Doctor Who, Hitchhiker’s and Dirk Gently – as well as projects that never came to fruition.

Douglas’s personal papers, published here for the first time, offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

NON-FICTION

Title: 42

Pub date: 24/08/2023

Format: Hardback

Price: £30.00

ISBN: 978-1-80018-268-4

Rights: World/Audio/TV & Film

Following a career in film and television, Kevin Jon Davies directed The Making of Hitchhiker, the 1993 documentary for BBC Video. Adams then invited Davies to art-direct The Illustrated Hitchhiker. Since then, Davies has contributed to a number of Adams-related projects, including as researcher into Adams’ archives for The Hexagonal Phase (2018), the final radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. @kevinjondavies