Monty Losowsky loved telling stories. He had plenty of them – stories about growing up in poverty and watching bombs fall on London, about mingling with Nobel Prize winners and treating one of the rarest diseases in the world.

As Dean of Leeds Medical School, as the founding Chairman of the Thackray Medical Museum, as the professor who turned St James's into Europe's largest teaching hospital and as a world-leading researcher in liver disease, he had a major impact on medical treatment in Yorkshire.

He also had a lot of stories. Before his death in 2020 at the age of 88, he painstakingly dictated and typed several of his tales for others to enjoy. This volume, edited by his son Andrew, is a compilation of the best of Monty's stories.