The Idea of the Brain Spooky readers will have learnt to

readers will have learnt to stop people-pleasing and be armed with a new set of principles and a new sense of self

as well as plant magic

In Space: The Human Story

An Almost Impossible Thing follows six hitherto little-known women gardeners in the years before the First World War

The Idea of the Brain Spooky readers will have learnt toShortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets