John Harrison's clocks solve the problem that sank ships; Dava Sobel's short classic.
Simon Singh on the 358-year problem and Andrew Wiles's seven secret years solving it.
Harari's human story redrawn as a comic; the same argument in pictures.
A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.
Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.
What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.
The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.
Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.
Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.
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