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Christopher Dowrick examines the good of stories in a health-setting and the crucial need for a patient to be able to ‘tell a good story’ about her- or himself.

Community nurse and dovegreyreader Lynne Hatwell gives a personal account of the way in which reading and nursing have twined themselves together in her life.

Raymond Tallis goes into very deep questions with Chekhov (in his short story ‘Ward 6′). Raymond writes:

There is also new poetry and fiction from John Kinsella plus all our usual features. Add to this an interview with Richard Briers, and Janet Suzman’s vivid account of her childhood and experience in apartheid South Africa and you have an issue full to the brim with goodness.