Under the Knife

''This is history with a surgeon''s touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody'' The Sunday Times

''Utterly eccentric and riveting'' Mail on Sunday

''Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts'' The Daily Telegraph

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