From the October 2018 Issue Liquid of Life Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood By Rose George LR
From the June 2018 Issue Facing the Void With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial By Kathryn Mannix
From the May 2018 Issue In Florence’s Footsteps The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story By Christie Watson LR
From the March 2018 Issue The Past is Another Person Somebody I Used to Know By Wendy Mitchell By Anna Wharton LR
From the February 2018 Issue No Respect for Golf Courses Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes By Diane Atkinson Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote By Jane Robinson
From the August 2017 Issue Sense of an Ending Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame By Robert McCrum LR
From the February 2017 Issue Priming the Pump Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table By Stephen Westaby LR
From the November 2016 Issue Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair By Emma Tarlo
From the September 2016 Issue Blessed Are the Bacteria I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life By Ed Yong
From the December 2015 Issue Drop Dead Gorgeous Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present By Alison Matthews David LR
From the October 2015 Issue Hostess with the Mostess Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore By Julie Peakman LR
From the November 2014 Issue Final Words Being Mortal: Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End By Atul Gawande LR
From the May 2014 Issue Decisions & Incisions Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery By Henry Marsh LR
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