July 2014 Fiction & Entertainment Lead Titles

Riding a Crocodile: A Physician’s Tale Paul Komesaroff


Paperback | May 2014 | UWA Publishing | 9781742586199 | 374pp | 234x153mm | GEN | AUD$26.99, NZD$32.99

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to work after a break he becomes aware of disturbing changes taking place in the hospital. A series of suspicious deaths then throws his world into confusion. Nevski's inner turmoil grows and he has to confront the dangers that close in around him. 

Riding a Crocodile is both an insider's account of life in a major teaching hospital and a chilling detective story, exploring life and death issues of urgent contemporary relevance.