The Bridge Between Worlds

Gavin Francis is an award-winning writer and GP. He is the author of seven non-fiction books, including Island Dreams which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020; Adventures in Human Being was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Saltire Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award; Empire Antarctica, which won Scottish Book of the Year in the SMIT Awards and was shortlisted for both the Ondaatje and Costa Prizes. His latest book Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence became a Sunday Times bestseller. He has written for the Guardian, The Times, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His work has been translated in eighteen languages. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.