The Body: a guide for occupants. Bill Bryson. 2019.

In The Body, Bryson turns his gaze inwards, to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us. As he guides us around the human body to discover how it functions, what can go wrong and its remarkable ability to heal itself, what emerges is that we are infinitely more simplex, wondrous and mysterious than any of us might have suspected. 

From our genes to our linguistic skills, our big brains to our dexterous fingertips, we are an astonishing story of success. And the history of how we have tried to master our biology and stave off disease is full of forgotten heroes, astonishing anecdotes and extraordinary facts. (Your body made a million red blood cells since you started reading this).