Sam Guglani

Doctor and writer Sam Guglani completed his Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford and has since won prizes for his poetry. In between writing personally and professionally for The Lancet, Sam founded Medicine Unboxed, an event series bringing together medicine and the arts, which he directs and curates every year. In 2018 he presents his debut fiction novel, Histories.

Histories is a hypnotic portrait of life in one hospital, over one week. In the corridors and consulting rooms, by the bedside, through the open curtain, witness charged encounters within the emotional and physical world of medicine. Old insecurities surface as junior doctors try to save a man from dying; an enraged chaplain picks a fight with a consultant; a porter waxes lyrical on his invisibility. These are only some of the stories that so seamlessly connect, collide and create an unforgettable panorama of being.

Sam Guglani's vivid prose has the raw intensity of poetry that pulls the reader in on every page. Histories is a luminous argument for truly seeing and listening to others and to ourselves.