{"product_id":"the-royal-free-carl-shuker","title":"The Royal Free","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eEqual parts workplace comedy, home invasion thriller and literary conundrum, The Royal Free is an exuberant, dark, wildly entertaining novel about death and copy editing – by the author of the acclaimed A Mistake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Ballard is a recently bereaved single father to a baby daughter, and a medical editor tasked with saving the ‘third oldest medical journal in the world’, the Royal London Journal of Medicine, from the mistakes no one else notices – the misplaced apostrophes, the Freudian misspelling, the wrong subtype of an influenza strain (H2N1 or H5N1?). His job is utterly boring, but – or so he tells himself – totally crucial: the Royal London is a stronghold of care for the human body, a bastion of humanism in a disintegrating world. In the London outside of the office, the prognosis for the body politic is bad: civic unrest is poised on the brink of riots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttempting to grieve for his lost young wife, while haunted by a group of violent North London teenagers in a collapsing city, James is brought to crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note this copy is in near new condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eISBN: \u003cspan tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Text Text__body3\"\u003e9781776922147 \u003cspan class=\"Text Text__subdued\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eSize: Paperback, \u003cspan tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Text Text__body3\"\u003e312 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003epages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublisher: \u003cspan\u003eTe Herenga Waka University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePublished: 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A - Near New Condition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45622411264156,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/1597\/0972\/files\/theroyalfree_2_545af3e9-158a-4b6e-9ebf-913cb2f7079d.jpg?v=1781593960","url":"https:\/\/booksforless.co.nz\/products\/the-royal-free-carl-shuker","provider":"Books For Less","version":"1.0","type":"link"}