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Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and doctor, a contributor to the Guardian, Times, New York Review of Books, Granta, and the London Review of Books. Events, reviews and essays are updated at www.gavinfrancis.com ; twitter news on @gavinfranc; Instagram @islandmapper An in-person and online events calendar is kept updated at http://gavinfrancis.com/upcoming-events.html Gavin qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He is the author of six books of non-fiction. True North, Travels in Arctic Europe (2008); Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins (2012) which was SMIT Scottish Book of the Year 2013 and shortlisted for the Costa, Ondaatje, Banff, & Saltire Prizes; Adventures in Human Being (2015), which won Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2015, was the Observer’s Science Book of the Year, and was a winner in the BMA Book Awards; and Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change (2018), which was a book of the year in the Sunday Times and the Scotsman. Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession (2020) was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year; Intensive Care: a GP, a Community, & a Pandemic was published in January 2021 and describes 18 months as a frontline GP between Edinburgh and Orkney through the Covid-19 pandemic. His books have been translated into 18 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He lives in Edinburgh, where he also works as a GP.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

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