Richard Gordon

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1952
  • Latest Book:
    February 2001
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Full Series List in Order

Doctor

1 - Doctor in the House (Dec-1952)
2 - Doctor at Sea (Dec-1953)
3 - Doctor at Large (Dec-1955)
4 - Doctor in Love (Dec-1957)
5 - Doctor and Son (Dec-1959)
6 - Doctor in Clover (Dec-1960)
7 - Doctor on Toast (Dec-1961)
8 - Doctor in the Swim (Dec-1962)
9 - The Summer of Sir Lancelot (Apr-1965)
10 - Love and Sir Lancelot (Jan-1966)
11 - Doctor on the Boil (Oct-1970)
12 - Doctor on the Brain (Jun-1972)
13 - Doctor in the Nude (Jul-1973)
14 - Doctor on the Job (Apr-1976)
15 - Doctor in the Nest (Feb-1979)
16 - Doctors' Daughters (Sep-1981)
17 - Dr Gordon's Casebook (Oct-1982)
18 - Doctor on the Ball (Jan-1985)
19 - Doctor in the Soup (Jan-1986)
20 - The Last of Sir Lancelot (May-1999)

Graham Trevose

1 - The Facemaker (Oct-1967)
2 - Surgeon at Arms (Sep-1968)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Doctor in the House

    Doctor - 1

    Richard Gordon’s acceptance into St Swithan’s medical school came as no surprise to anyone, least of all him â€" after all, he had been to public school, played first XV rugby, and his father was, let’s face it, ‘a St Swithan’s man’. Sure...

  • Doctor at Sea

    Doctor - 2

    Richard Gordon's life was moving rapidly towards middle-aged lethargy - or so he felt. Employed as an assistant in general practice - the medical equivalent of a poor curate - and having been 'persuaded' that marriage is as much an obligation for a y...

  • The Captain's Table

    When William Ebbs is taken from a creaking cargo boat and made Captain of a luxury liner, he quickly discovers that the sea holds many perilsâ€"probably the most perilous being the first night dinner, closely followed by the dangers of finding a woma...

  • Doctor at Large

    Doctor - 3

    Dr Richard Gordon’s first job after qualifying takes him to St Swithan’s where he is enrolled as Junior Casualty House Surgeon. However, some rather unfortunate incidents with Mr Justice Hopwood, as well as one of his patients inexplicably coughi...

  • Doctor in Love

    Doctor - 4

    In this hilarious romantic comedy, Richard Gordon awakes one morning with a headache. It takes him a while to realise he is ill â€" after all he is a doctor! Dr Pennyworth diagnoses jaundice and prescribes a spell in hospital. But amongst the bedpans...

  • Doctor and Son

    Doctor - 5

    Recovering from the realisation that his honeymoon was not quite as he had anticipated, Simon Sparrow can at least look forward to a life of tranquillity and order as a respectable homeowner with a new wife. But that was before his old friend Dr Grim...

  • Doctor in Clover

    Doctor - 6

    Now Dr Grimsdyke is qualified he finds practising medicine rather less congenial than he anticipated. But the ever-selfless Grimsdyke resolves to put the desires of others (and in particular his rather career-minded cousin) before his own, and settle...

  • Doctor on Toast

    Doctor - 7

    In this riotously funny comedy Dr Grimsdyke's genius for disaster is given full rein. He falls in love with a model, only to find she is already married. His much-anticipated cruise is an unmitigated disaster and his role as Sir Lancelot's biographer...

  • Doctor in the Swim

    Doctor - 8

    Dr Grimsdyke was only too pleased to discover that he was sitting next to the luscious Lucy Squiffington on his flight home. Several hours in her company was bound to go well â€" in fact it went rather too well seeing as how the long-suffering Anemon...



  • Nuts in May

    Algernon Brickwood, successful publisher and proud father, is known to enjoy a spot of lunch or two. And it is over one such lunch that Teddy, his beloved son, drops his bombshell. He has been sent down from Oxford â€" and not only that, but he’s a...

  • The Summer of Sir Lancelot

    Doctor - 9

    Sir Lancelot Spratt, respected and much feared senior consultant at St Swithan’s has finally taken the plunge and retired to enjoy the quiet life. No longer able to fill his days terrorising staff and patients alike, he turns instead to a new passi...

  • Love and Sir Lancelot

    Doctor - 10

    St Swithan’s Hospital keeps the rooms of its male and female students separate by an ingenious bricking up of corridors and staircases. However love will always find a way â€" even if its path is not always smooth and it has to encounter a few lock...

  • The Facemaker

    Graham Trevose - 1

    Graham Trevose is an ardent pioneer of reconstructive surgery having seen its huge benefit under the hands of a talented American surgeon. However London is not America and this new form of treatment is received with deep suspicion by orthodox medici...

  • Surgeon at Arms

    Graham Trevose - 2

    Surgeon at Arms continues the story of the much-admired surgeon, Graham Trevose, who first appeared in The Facemaker. As the Second World War breaks out and begins to yield its countless casualties, Trevose uses his skills as a plastic surgeon to re...

  • The Facts of Life

  • Doctor on the Boil

    Doctor - 11

    In Doctor on the Boil, Richard Gordon’s prescription in as effervescent and hilariously stimulating as ever.The work-shy Dr Grimsdyke is still at St Swithan’s â€" the same as ever despite the world having moved on around him. Nurses are hitching ...

  • The Medical Witness

  • Doctor on the Brain

    Doctor - 12

    On a sunny morning in June, the dean of St Swithan’s Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor ...

  • Doctor in the Nude

    Doctor - 13

    Mrs Samantha Dougal is against it. Nudity that is. In a Soho strip-club, the Dean of St Swithan’s Hospital feigns indifference. Mrs Dougal’s husband, however, is totally in favour â€" and has just moved in with the Dean, who just happens to be h...



  • The Sleep of Life

    In 1846 there were no anaesthetics. An operation meant searing pain, hardly dulled by rum or opium, enduring only through strong men holding the patient on the table. Surgeons like Robert Liston learned to operate swiftly, to be merciful... Liston co...

  • Doctor on the Job

    Doctor - 14

    Heavens above! The staff of St Swithan’s hospital on strike! Sir Lancelot can hardly believe it. And when the porters and tea ladies take charge and start ordering him about, it seems that all hell will break loose â€" well from Sir Lancelot’s qu...

  • Good Neighbours

    Dr Richard Gordon had no desire to leave the idyllic orchards and hop fields of Kent. For him the postcode BR1 2AX has the ring of the Gulag Archilpelago and is to be avoided at all costs. However after a decade living in suburbia he has come to love...

  • The Invisible Victory

    Jim Elgar is a young chemist struggling to find work in nineteen-thirties’ Britain. He moves instead to the scientific world in Germany and finds himself perfectly placed to undertake top-secret work for the British war effort. His ensuing role in ...

  • The Private Life of Florence Nightingale

    ‘She was emotional, she was vain, she was incomparable. She was a passionate cultivator of new ideas on the compost-heap of long rotted ones. She had a genius for rubbing noses into facts right in front of them. She had infinite capability and litt...

  • Happy Families

    Now living in the heart of British suburbia, BR1 2AX to be precise, Richard Gordon has adopted local dress and is conversant with many of the customs - he now washes his car as often as he cleans his teeth. As the seasons progress, this comic safari ...

  • Doctor in the Nest

    Doctor - 15

    Sir Lancelot Sprat, surgeon and patriot, is finding that his faith in the British National Health Service is taking a bit of a battering â€" especially when the ceiling of his operating theatre collapses. It had already been a bad dayâ€"a call from N...

  • Instant Fishing

  • The Private Life of Jack the Ripper

    In this remarkably shrewd and witty novel, Victorian London is brought to life with a compelling authority. Richard Gordon wonderfully conveys the boisterous, often lusty panorama of life for the very poor â€" hard, menial work; violence; prostitutio...

  • Jack the Ripper



  • The Private Life of Doctor Crippen

    Doctor Crippen’s murder of his wife, aided and abetted by his mistress Ethel Le Neve, ranks among one of the most notorious crimes of the twentieth century and has earned Crippen a place in the gruesome Chamber of Horrors. Here, Richard Gordon skil...

  • Doctors' Daughters

    Doctor - 16

    The arrival of the new bishop at Mitrebury and his orders for all clergy to take up jogging and a diet of boiled rice sends the men of the cloth scurrying to the Old Chapterhouse Surgery for their dose of sick notes. This added burden seems rather to...

  • Question of Guilt

    While searching for a cure for her tubercular sister, Baby, Nancy Grange, an American heiress, and Dr. Eliot Beckett encounter the infamous Dr. Crippen, his mistress, and his overbearing, ill-fated wife Belle...

  • Dr Gordon's Casebook

    Doctor - 17

    'Well, I see no reason why anyone should expect a doctor to be on call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Considering the sort of risky life your average GP leads, it's not only inhuman but simple-minded to think that a doctor could stay sob...

  • Doctor on the Ball

    Doctor - 18

    First there is the actor who confuses himself with his character. Then comes the man suffering from amnesiaâ€"and the housewife who has spent all day wrestling with her washing machine. This is all in a day’s work for the local GP in a Kentish town...

  • Doctor in the Soup

    Doctor - 19

    This witty medical mystery sees the deeply ambitions MP for Churchford join the list of Richard Gordon's private patients. Gordon is surprised when the MP pays him a visit of particular delicacy, but agrees to refer him to a psychiatrist. The referra...

  • A Gentlemen's Club

    A few traditional institutions remain in the modern world to nurture an exclusive male chauvinism and resistance to change. The members of the old Albany Club, however, find themselves obliged to respond to the demands of modern society when they mus...

  • The Last of Sir Lancelot

    Doctor - 20

    Richard Gordon's hilarious novel concerns the second coming of Florence Nightingale, determined to recon struct the NHS and the antics of Sir Lancelot Spratt as he tries to prevent the closure of his beloved St. Swithin's Hospital....

  • Mental Reservation

    A priest is murdered in his rectory. Patrick Casey, the protagonist, is assigned this case because he attended a seminary, and he is a Catholic. The rest of the office is Jewish and Wasps. There is a court scene where a high ranking member of the c...

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Richard Gordon has published 39 books.

Richard Gordon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mental Reservation, was published in February 2001.

The first book by Richard Gordon, Doctor in the House, was published in December 1952.

Yes. Richard Gordon has 2 series.
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