THE BODY

1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE A directory of wonders The Guardian Jaw dropping The Times Classic wry gleeful Bryson an entertaining and absolutely fact rammed book The Sunday Times It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book The Daily Telegraph We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything this new book is an instant classic It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy and celebrating the genius of your existence time and time again What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous and often more mysterious than I had ever