Medicine: general issues

Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human

‘Has the power to change the way you look at the world’ Steven Bartlett

‘The heir to Oliver Sacks’ David Baddiel

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024

AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH

Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Envy. Lust. Anger.

Jog On: How Running Saved My Life

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book’ Joe Lycett

‘Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset’ Alexandra Heminsley

‘My kind of role model’ Ben Fogle

Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go

‘[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life’ BOB ODENKIRK

‘Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary’ NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL

‘At its heart a story about love … an astonishing new voice’ ALI MILLAR, author of THE LAST DAYS

Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL

‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON

‘Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY

Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding.

A Journal of the Plague Year

Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665

This timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.

Secrets of the Human Body

206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises.

Genius of Britain (Text Only)

The extraordinary history of British science, with commentary from Britain’s greatest living scientists: Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and James Dyson

Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital

This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

The story of Netley in Southampton – its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley’s links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.

Plague Child

The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.

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