When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice.
Allan Mallinson - On His Majesty's Service The year is 1829 and Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey has been promised command of his regiment, the 6th Light Dragoons. Before he can take up his post, however, there is a six-month assignment as an observer with the Russian army, an undertaking at the personal request of the commander-in-chief which Hervey feels obliged to fulfil.
The phone call that dragged George Smiley, once acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed, was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it.
A large number of people with mental health problems are excluded from participating in many of the key activities of society. This book covers the main concepts behind exclusion - outlining the main causes of exclusion in a descriptive model - and provides a source of evidence for the extent of social exclusion in the United Kingdom. Social policy initiatives relating to exclusion are detailed and chapters written by service users and by carers are included. The book is divided into three parts, entitled: what is social exclusion?; social exclusion - the scope of the problem; and social exclusion and psychiatry
Boyd's ninth novel, an absorbing historical thriller, is loosely based on the history of a covert branch of British intelligence created to coax America into the Second World War. The story unfolds on parallel tracks as Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.
