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Amy Gets Eaten by Adam Kay; Henry Paker (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
The first-ever picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker.This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of Amy, a small piece of sweetcorn who is eaten by Noah, a medium-sized boy. The story follows Amy on her funny, gooey and anatomically-accurate adventure through the human body as she ...Show more
Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, Edited by Adam Kay by Edited by Adam Kay
Category: Philosophy
Curated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million bestseller This is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features 100 household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include: Sir Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Peter Kay, Stephen Fry, Dawn French, Sir Trevor McDonald, Graha ...Show more
Escape from Shadow Physics: the quest to end the dark ages of quantum theory by Adam Forrest Kay
Category: Science & Natural History
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'langu ...Show more
Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body by Adam Kay
Category: Children's Educational
The record-breaking, bestselling hilarious first children's book from multi-million bestselling author Adam Kay, illustrated throughout by comedian Henry Paker. Now in paperback.Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary a ...Show more
Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body by Adam Kay
Category: Children's Educational
Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well... pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, a ...Show more
Kay's Incredible Inventions - A Fascinating and Fantastically Funny Guide to Inventions That Changed the World (and Some That Definitely Didn't) by Adam Kay; Henry Paker (Illustrator)
Category: Non-Fiction
Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert - it wasn't Zendaya.) ...Show more
Kay's Marvellous Medicine by Adam Kay
Category: Children's Educational
The remarkable and remarkably revolting follow-up children's book to the record-breaking bestseller Kay's Anatomy from the UK's funniest science teacher, Adam Kay. Illustrated throughout by comedian Henry Paker.The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off ...Show more
Kay's Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body by Adam Kay
Category: Children's Educational
The remarkable and remarkably revolting follow-up children's book to the record-breaking bestseller Kay's Anatomy from the UK's funniest science teacher, Adam Kay. Illustrated throughout by comedian Henry Paker. The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads of ...Show more
Kay’s Incredible Inventions: A Fascinating and Fantastically Funny Guide to Inventions That Changed the World (and Some That Definitely Didn’t) by Adam Kay
Category: Children's Non Fiction
The third hilarious middle grade book from the record-breaking bestselling author of Kay's Anatomy and This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay. Illustrated throughout by Adam's friend and fellow award-winning comedian, Henry Paker. Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. ...Show more
The Citadel by A. J. Cronin; Adam Kay (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
A book which inspired the creation of the NHS, The Citadel is a moving story of tragedy, triumph and redemption. With a foreword by Adam Kay, the bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt. When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, the young Scot bri ...Show more
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Category: Biography
The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking, diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less th ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Category: Biography | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more