The Notes of Doctor Newgate - Softcover

Franks, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957213646 ISBN 13: 9780957213647

Publisher: Muswell Press, 2013

Synopsis

'The Notes of Dr.Newgate' is a richly comic but profound study of addiction in its myriad forms, not just drink and drugs but also the lethal lures of gambling, power,lust, even love and faith themselves. The book is the chronicle of a middle-aged suburban GP whose life is undergoing a series of crises. It is thrown into further confusion by the arrival of a beautiful young patient with whom he has an affair which will spell the end of his career.

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About the Author

Alan Franks' previous fiction includes the classic newspaper comedy 'Boychester's Bugle', which the novelist Tom Sharpe found brilliantly comic; also the Sixties family saga 'The Sins of the Sons' and the award-winning 'Going Over'. He wrote for The Times for more than thirty years, covering a wide variety of arts subjects and social issues. In the 1980s he wrote a regular column for the paper,' Alan Franks' Diary', which became a book and then a Radio 4 series. He has twice been nominated for a British Press Award. His poems have won several awards, including the Wigtown Prize, Scotland s largest.

Edition details

• Publisher: Muswell Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957213646
• ISBN 13: 9780957213647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295