The 10 biggest books of autumn 2019

The Body by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)

In a book subtitled “A Guide for Occupants”, Bryson explores how the human body functions and how it heals itself. “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,” he writes.