Can You Hear Me?A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian with a nasty head injury won't let the crew near him on a busy road. A newborn baby is worryingly silent. An addict urinates on the ambulance floor when denied a fix. This is the life of an ambulance paramedic. Jake Jones has worked in the UK ambulance service for ten years: every day, he sees a dozen

cantankerous

” --Thomas King

a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom

lively and now-classic account of the First World War

what it takes to be a great soccer player

Sigurd never arrived

rebellious

But here comes the good news: you can beat them at their own game

The second novel from one of the most celebrated voices in British fiction and film

Solomon also portrays the pain of others

Stuffed into the hold of a ship manned by drunken murderers

moves into the present with approach of the English passengers in 1857