AliveWhat does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. Medicine teaches us how a body functions, but it doesn't help us navigate the reality of living in one. As she became a surgeon, a mother, and ultimately a patient herself, Weston found herself grappling with the gap between scientific knowledge and unfathomable complexity of human experience. In this

England's first published female poet

And absolutely no falling in love

this is a vivid evocation of a world on the brink of seismic upheaval

From Waterloo to Whitby

his favourite bench

this is the story of what happens when he suddenly realises that his life is changing all over again

following on from The Rising Tide

Dr John Cooper Clarke

and Mary Berry fans alike

In his first serious narrative book

Feminists and misogynists rage at her online

Maybe it's time we started taking pee a bit more seriously