Lindsey Fitzharris

Immerse yourself in a compelling narrative with The Facemaker, where award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris unveils the astonishing achievements of Harold Gillies, a pioneering plastic surgeon whose work during the First World War redefined the field of reconstructive surgery. The story follows Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, as he confronts the harrowing aftermath of the war's industrial-scale slaughter, where new weaponry...

The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever. In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since...

School Library Journal Best Book of the Year | Chicago Public Library Best Kids' Book of the Year | Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends. Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine’s most...

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about diseases that have shaped the course of human history. * Chock-full of awesomely appalling medical history. —Shelf Awareness, starred review * Engaging, informative, but also gross. —School Library Journal, starred review School Library Journal Best Book of 2023 Cybils 2023 Nonfiction Middle Grade Finalist 2024...

From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of...