'Honest, compassionate, brave and big hearted' - LORRAINE KELLY'Celebrates human beings in all their glorious, messy imperfection' - CAT DEELEYSunday Times Bestseller updated with a new chapter on Amir's experiences during the coronavirus pandemic and being on the frontlines of the historic vaccination effort.60 hours a week240 patients10 minutes to make a diagnosis

The autobiography of a boxing superstar and Olympic and world champion**'**Khan is extraordinary ... To many ... the figure of an Olympic champion turned political icon suggests Muhammad Ali' OBSERVERAmir Khan is a hard-working, twenty-first-century hero: a standard bearer for his Pakistani heritage, his Lancashire upbringing and the future of British boxing.At just seventeen he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and...

Brought to you by Penguin.60 hours a week240 patients10 minutes to make a diagnosisWelcome to the surgery.Charting his 15 years working as a GP, from rookie to becoming a partner in one of the UK’s busiest surgeries, Dr Amir Khan’s stories are as much about community and care as they are about blood tests and bodily fluids.Along the way, he introduces us to t...

'Very open and honest' talkSPORTSome people are born to be sports stars. I wasn't one of them. I was born to be . . . actually what was I born to be? Probably, like most Asian kids growing up in the late Nineties, a doctor, or a teacher. At a push I might have been a cricketer. A boxer? Come off it! No Asian lad did that sort of thing.Hanging up my gloves has given me the opportunity to reflect not just on my career but on who I am and the kind of person I ...

Brought to you by Penguin.Some people are born to be sports stars. I wasn't one of them. I was born to be . . . actually what was I born to be? Probably, like most Asian kids growing up in the late Nineties, a doctor, or a teacher. At a push I might have been a cricketer. A boxer? Come off it! No Asian lad did that sort of thing.Hanging up my gloves has given me the opportunity to reflect not just on my career but on who I am and the kind of person I want t...

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship. In Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Nietzsche famously posited the death of God, taken to mean the dissolution of all horizons within which human beings construct a plausible ontology that gives words significance. The idea of God, as a transcendental signified (to borrow from Derrida), underwrites meaning and values. Socrates placed knowing as the highest philosophical good over two millennia ago; however, once we find th...

This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2. It is a sequel to Stanley Cavell’s 1981 landmark study of the comedic genre, Pursuits of Happiness, where he examines seven comedies of Hollywood’s “Golden Age.” Khan puts forward the idea that comedies, once centred on the conventional “happy ending,” ...

अभिनेता, निर्माता, निर्देशक आमिर खान के इतने रूप हैं कि इन्हें किसी एक पुस्तक में समेटना लगभग असंभव है। लेखक व फोटोग्राफर प्रदीप चंदा ने आमिर के कॅरियर की उस राह को समझने का दुर्गम प्रयास किया है, जिस पर चलकर वह भारतीय फिल्म कला में महत्तम योगदान देने के साथ ही बड़ी आबादी को प्रभावित करनेवाले व्यक्ति के रूप में उभरे। यह पुस्तक लेखक की ओर से उस सुपर स्टार तथा उसके पीछे के व्यक्ति को एक भेंट है। आमिर के शुरुआती दिनों से ही उनकी तसवीरें लेनेवाले फोटोग्राफर चंद ने इसमें वे शानदार तसवीरें, पेंट...

**He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother).From Dr Amir Khan, How (Not) To Have an Arranged Marriage is a timely, heartfelt novel which looks at all aspects of modern arranged marriages.'This is a complete delight from a born storyteller' – Lorraine Kelly**Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents, overshadowing his younger sister, Rehana. As he finishes his medical degree in London, his life appears to be mapped out for him: become...

How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage is written and read with poignant honesty by Dr Amir Khan, bestselling author of The Doctor Will See You Now. Heartwarming and hilarious, it follows the adventures of a young Muslim student doctor, torn between his traditional family and his whirlwind romance.He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother). Yousef is the golden child to his strict Pakistani parents. As he finishes his medical degree in Londo...

Come on a journey with award-winning GP DR AMIR KHAN to discover how families begin and how you became part of your family.Families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but how did we all begin? This accessible introduction to how babies are made is perfect for opening up discussions with children and celebrating the diversity that makes each family special.Welcome to LITTLE EXPERTS – inspiring the next generation of little experts!• Written by ex...