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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков: The Heart of a Dog (Paperback, 1997, Harvill Press) 4 stars

A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of …

The metamorphosis reimagined by a neuroendrocrinologist not too fond of the Bolsheviks?

5 stars

There seems to be a pattern in my favourite works being written by (practising/former) medics who’d rather not put their opinions out there under their own name… (Looking at you Doyle)

5/5 Simple, witty and sublime in one.