Book cover of Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

Book description

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

'This is what journalism is for' - Observer

Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.

The Gender Identity…


When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Time to Think as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As anyone who has read my satires will know, I’m hugely concerned by the rise of extreme gender ideology with its impact on vulnerable children.

Hannah Barnes’ calm, readable, but ultimately devastating book chronicles the medical scandal that led to the closure of the UK’s only child gender clinic. She based the book on more than 100 hours of interviews with clinicians and former patients, revealing that an institution set up to provide talking therapies now almost entirely spurned those therapies in a rush to medicalise confused children.

In the future, when people want to know how this madness was…

If you love Time to Think...

Book cover of These Blue Mountains

These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

Want books like Time to Think?

Our community of 13,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Time to Think.

Browse books like Time to Think

Book cover of A Land of Never After
Book cover of Honeybee
Book cover of Too Bright to See

Share your top 3 reads of 2025!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,395

readers submitted
so far, will you?

📚 If you like Time to Think, you might also like...

Book cover of Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Need to Know by Nicholas Reynolds,

The authoritative but accessible history of the birth of modern American intelligence in World War II that treats not just one but all of the various disciplines: spies, codebreakers, saboteurs.

Told in a relatable style that focuses on actual people, it was a New Yorker "Best of 2022" selection and…

Book cover of Tsunami

Tsunami by LeeAnn Pickrell,

On the morning of December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The resulting tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people across fourteen countries, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Thailand to the Maldives to India and all the way to East Africa.…

5 book lists we think you will like!