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Did a female astronaut cover up a plot to kill JFK?
When Mary Haverstick began researching an obscure pilot's life, she was looking for a feminist hero. She discovered a monstrous double-agent
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Fantasy: Realms of Imagination, review: how humble folk tales morphed into the Hollywood epic
Boasting rare first editions, scripts, maps and film props, the British Library's new show is a visually captivating treat
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The horrific story of infected blood in the NHS (and beyond)
Cara McGoogan’s The Poison Line is a revelatory work of non-fiction, tracing a shocking international scandal that ruined countless lives
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is back, with 800 pages of mind-bending metaphysics
This sci-fi follow-up to The Morning Star teases at family secrets as it follows a 'hippy biologist' and a trainee undertaker
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Milk: a fascinating history of our dependence on dairy
The Wellcome Collection’s exhibition about our complicated relationship with milk is uncomfortable but entertaining viewing
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Can we be good without God?
Humanly Possible, an epic, spine-tingling and persuasive work of history by Sarah Bakewell, traces 700 years of humanism
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'What on Earth do you mean?' – and other questions that changed philosophy forever
In his book A Terribly Serious Adventure, Nikhil Krishnan shines a light on the 'ordinary language' philosophers who shook up their field
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Seven inventions that changed the world – from magnets to springs
Roma Agrawal locates the wonder of engineering in the lively Nuts and Bolts. What a shame she also blunders into politics
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Are we all naturally migrants – and is the nation state doomed?
Our view has been warped because history was written by the homebodies, argues Sam Miller in his new book Migrants: The Story of Us All
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Big ideas: 2022’s best new smart thinking, psychology and sociology books
From Frans de Waal’s Different to Lucy Cooke’s Bitch, 2022's brainiest non-fiction used zoology to re-examine what it means to be human
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The Long Shot by Kate Bingham and Tim Hames review: a vaccine success story – who cares if they were ‘insiders’?
The venture capitalist chief of the Vaccine Task Force takes us inside her four-billion-pound gamble — and you can’t help being impressed
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How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Noah Harari review: extinction for tiny tots
In his new series Unstoppable Us, the Sapiens author tells the story of humanity's rise – and the animals we killed along the way
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How to explain the 21st century to a Neanderthal
Juan José Millás and Juan Luis Arsuaga's Life as Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal is a free-wheeling scientific buddy story
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Inside the $157 billion wood-stealing industry
In the US alone, $1 billion of trees are stolen a year – but Lyndsie Bourgon's Tree Thieves finds the issue is less than clear cut
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The answer to Britain’s farming crisis? It’s in these books
Clarkson’s Farm made millions aware that British agriculture is at a crossroads. But what comes next?
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Nuclear power is unwieldy, terrifying – and the world’s best bet
Atoms and Ashes, the new book from Chernobyl author Serhii Plokhy, delves into the disasters that have made the world fear nuclear energy
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