P.Goddard

My latest books are The Death of Science, co-edited with Prof. Angus Dalgleish (ebook and paperback) and the third edition of PANDEMIC (ebook only).

The Death of Science looks at the way in which science has been politicised and defunded. The very essence of science has been lost.

The third edition of PANDEMIC is presently only available as an ebook only whilst the second edition of PANDEMIC is available as a paperback (but not as an ebook). 6 chapters are dedicated to the Covid-19 pandemic !

The first edition was published on August 1st 2020 and was the first book to address the novel coronavirus epidemic. I was already writing the book before the virus struck, having warned about it some years previously. Many doctors were warning about novel coronaviruses but still we were not ready for it! The book contains a personal account of my time in an isolation hospital, incarcerated with my brother due to scarlet fever and my memories of hallucinations due to the Asian Flu in 1957!

PANDEMIC continues in the same tradition as "Fake News, An approximately true analysis", which according to the foreword is worthless and should be shredded. I definitely agree! Have a look and see what you think!

Fake News follows on from the cartoon book entitled The National Elf Service...not the NHS. In that book the Right Horrible Jellybean Shunt is forcing the junior dwarves (doctors?) to work in the coal mines 10 days a week whilst the management pull the clinical staff over the edge of the cliffs onto the rocks of despair. Thank goodness it was not about the NHS!

Best Sellers/downloads

Fiction and Poetry

Downloads worldwide:

Reincarnation was number 1 in Financial thrillers with The writing on the wall at number 2.

Parables from parallel places reached Number 1 in Poetry anthologies and No 2 in Love poems

Oberon's Bane was Number 2 in the Celtic, English and Welsh Myths and Legends and Number 13 in Historical fantasy

Witch Way Home? was previously Number 9 in Science Fiction worldwide.

Death of Science

Continuously Number 1 bestseller on Amazon for nearly a year.

Biography

Paul R Goddard was born in Thornton Heath, Croydon, in 1950. He went to Winterbourne School, Thornton Heath, followed by Selhurst Grammar School for Boys. After training in medicine for six years (UCL and UCH) and working in London Teaching Hospitals for three years he moved to Bristol with his lovely wife Lois.

His first medical paper was published in 1979 and his first text book in 1986.

He has written more than fifteen textbooks, fourteen novels, an anthology of poetry and around 500 medical papers and three cartoon books.

During his medical career Paul won prizes for his medical publications including the Couch Award and the Twining Medal of the Royal College of Radiologists and the Barclay Prize from the British Institute of Radiology, 2002/2003. In September 2024 he was given the Zenith Global Health Lifetime Achievement award.

His fiction is intended to be mind expanding and provocative and covers broad subjects of good and evil, philosophy and science as well as fast and exciting action in fantasy and science fiction settings. It is suitable for all ages from 11 onwards.

Paul is a retired Professor of Radiology at the University of the West of England, leader of the band Dr Jazz, and enjoys painting in acrylics.

His poetry won The Order of the Salmon on the Rocky Mountaineer.