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A doctor’s love song to the wondrous, messy, miraculous human body.

Fifty Beating Wonders

A doctor's search for meaning and the miraculous in the Emergency Room

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    27 October 2026

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Summary

Like When Breath Becomes Air, Being Mortal, and The Emperor of All Maladies, Fifty Beating Wonders is a stunning book about the magnificent complexity of the human body and the miracle of being human. It is absorbing, uplifting, moving, and celebratory – a wonder indeed.

Fifty Beating Wonders is a book about the marvels and majesty of the human body, by an emergency physician who has spent the last thirty-five years doing her utmost to fix …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781460770320
ISBN-10:1460770323
Author:Michelle Johnston
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Imprint:HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:27 October 2026
Weight:312g
Dimensions:18mm x 152mm x 234mm
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Fifty Beating Wonders by Michelle Johnston - ISBN: 9781460770320
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About The Author

Michelle Johnston

Michelle Johnston is an author and an emergency physician. She is a Staff Specialist at the Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department, a busy inner-city trauma centre where she works as both clinician and teacher.

Her first novel, Dustfall, was published in February 2018 and was shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize for a debut novel in 2019. Her second novel, Tiny Uncertain Miracles, was published in 2022, followed by The Revisionists in 2025 and Fifty Beating Wonders in 2026.

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