Druin burch biography examples

Non-fiction &#; paperback; Vintage; pages; Review copy courtesy of the publisher.

I have read some interesting and unusual books in my time, but Druin Burch&#;s Digging Up the Dead must be the most interesting and unusual book I have ever read.

Indeed, when I was offered it for review, I had initially been drawn to the dark, Gothic nature of the subject, but hadn&#;t quite clocked the fact it was a non-fiction title. So when it popped through my door I was slightly taken aback to discover that it was actually a biography.

But what a biography it turned out to be!

Digging Up the Dead looks at the life and times of arguably the world&#;s first famous surgeon, Astley Cooper (), whom Burch &#; himself a medical doctor &#; describes as vain, egotistical, nepotistic and &#;rather wonderful&#;.

Astley was born into a highly educated family &#; his father was an Oxford-educated vicar, his uncle was senior surgeon at Guy&#;s Hospital in London &#; but he showed little inte