The CarThe car that we know petrol or diesel driven and operated by a human will soon be replaced by electric cars which, in turn, will become self driving. The reign of the car, which began in the late nineteenth century, will have lasted at most 150 years. More than any other technology more than television, mobile phones, more even than the internet cars have transformed our culture. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world

and consequently an exceptionally gifted finder of lost things - and lost people

richly detailed and pulls few punches

and her ancient

and human remains - a bit of skull with traces of the lethal bullet and a fragment of jaw bone

this astonishing debut plunges you into the blood and exhilaration of the first days of the Wars of the Roses

some for work

Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain

beat the sleepless nights

she and her husband left the city and high-flying careers to move the 500 miles north

And then a stranger arrives from Dresden

In a small town beset by poverty in the Missouri Ozarks two 12-year-old girls are found dead in the park

on his epic voyage home