Read Longitude

Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.

Carl Sagan's thirteen-part tour of the universe from 1980; "billions and billions".

The world's oldest and largest spaceport.

Nineteen masonry instruments from the 1730s, including a sundial accurate to two seconds.

Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.

The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.