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name: Norman Mounter
about: I have three intellectual passions: medicine, history and literature. At forty-nine years of age, I am full-time Histopathologist working on the Isle of Wight. The opportunity to develop my other interests – history and literature – came about when I was in my early forties. My two sons were no longer children and I had managed to secure a permanent consultant position. This led me to write my first novel, ‘Bitching Bits of Bone’. Published in 2016 by Austin Macauley, this dark comedic retelling of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ allowed me to explore aspects of fourteenth century medicine.Four years on, my second novel has permitted me to fully flex my medical muscles and to concentrate my expertise upon arguably one of the darkest places in I have three intellectual passions: medicine, history and literature. At forty-nine years of age, I am full-time Histopathologist working on the Isle of Wight. The opportunity to develop my other interests – history and literature – came about when I was in my early forties. My two sons were no longer children and I had managed to secure a permanent consultant position. This led me to write my first novel, ‘Bitching Bits of Bone’. Published in 2016 by Austin Macauley, this dark comedic retelling of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ allowed me to explore aspects of fourteenth century medicine.Four years on, my second novel has permitted me to fully flex my medical muscles and to concentrate my expertise upon arguably one of the darkest places in human history: the pathology laboratory of Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz-Birkenau. ...more