- The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson How can we make sense of humanity’s family tree, which stretches back billions of years into the past? Richard Dawkins is the expert teller of complicated biological tales, so travel back to the first blob of an ancestor in great company.
- Aspirin by Diarmuid Jeffreys, Bloomsbury Gripping tale of a wonder drug from traditional medicine’s willow bark to modern pill. Sadly, John Vane who won a Nobel prize for working out the role of aspirin in keeping hearts healthy, died last month.
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