Holiday reads and gift guide: life-changing reads

Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
A Barack Obama 2021 Summer reading list choice
Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit. In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality.
Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.

In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease. Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity. More than that, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces readers to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures.

Scary Smart is an insider look at the future, not only of technology and AI, but of our species. It is an accessible blueprint for what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself. From the former Chief Business Officer at Google [X] and internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy. By 2049 AI will be a billion times more intelligent than humans. Scary Smart explains how to fix the current trajectory now, to make sure that the AI of the future can preserve our species. And offers a blueprint, pointing the way to what we can do to safeguard ourselves, those we love and the planet itself.

Steve Biddulph is a world-renowned family therapist and multi-million bestselling parenting author. Fully Human is his first personal development book for people all ages that will help us all live better, more fulfilling lives. In the book, Biddulph draws on deeply personal stories from his own life, as well of those of his clients, and from the frontiers of thinking about how the brain works with the body. At the peak of a lifetime's work, one of the world's best-known psychotherapists and educators shows how you can be more alive, more connected. More FULLY HUMAN.
From the bestselling author of Raising Boys.

Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened to you?' rather than 'What’s wrong with you?'
Grounded in the latest brain science and brought to life through compelling narratives, this book shines a light on a much-needed path to recovery – showing us our incredible capacity to transform after adversity.