Preez Michael Du: Dr James Barry Z44 [2016] hardback ZDESI The Soho photographer

The Soho photographer

When the pair meet

always on the same day

this is a book of 'exuberance

transfixed readers of The New Yorker and of the early collections Pigeon Feathers (1962) and The Music School (1966)

Preez Michael Du: Dr James Barry Z44 [2016] hardback ZDESI The Soho photographerA Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric. He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire, outraged the military establishment and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari. At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals, including a cat, a goat, a parrot and a terrier. Long ago in