Contributes to:
London Review of Books www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/gavin-francis
New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com/contributors/gavin-francis/
Guardian www.theguardian.com/profile/gavin-francis
Author of:
Recovery - The Lost Art of Convalescence (2022)
Intensive Care - A GP, a Community, & a Pandemic (2021)
Island Dreams - Mapping an Obsession (2020)
Shapeshifters - On Medicine & Human Change (2018)
Shapeshifters - A Journey Through the Changing Human Body (US - 2018)
* A Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Scotsman Book of the Year*
Adventures in Human Being (UK & USA 2015)
*Winner of Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year*
*Winner BMA Book Awards - Category: Basis of Medicine*
*Economist Books of the Year 2015*
*Sunday Times Books of the Year 2015*
*Sunday Herald Books of the Year 2015*
*Observer - Science Book of the Year 2015*
*Times Books of the Year 2015*
Book of the Week, BBC Radio 4, June 2015:
links to excerpts below
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins (2012)
Scottish Book of the Year 2013, shortlisted for Costa, Banff, Saltire & Ondaatje Awards
True North: Travels in Arctic Europe (2008, 2012)
Page 1 animation: Empire Antarctica - Scottish Book Awards