The Secret Body

As David Attenborough opens our goggling eyes to the natural world without, so Daniel Davis brings us face to face with the stunningly clever and, yes, beautiful world within ... One of those books that makes you look at everything human in a new, challenging and thrilling way

Stephen Fry on The Beautiful Cure

One of the best accounts I have yet come across of the nature of biological science and discovery

Henry Marsh on The Beautiful Cure

Lucid and entertaining … Much as Siddhartha Mukherjee did in his book The Gene, Davis expertly weaves together human stories and scientific endeavour

The Times on The Beautiful Cure

A terrific book by a consummate storyteller and scientific expert

Guardian on The Beautiful Cure

A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling. Daniel Davis has a rare knack for making complex science comprehensible and thrilling

BILL BRYSON

An extraordinary journey that reveals the magnificence, intricacy and beauty of the human body, fundamentally changing the way we see ourselves. Masterful

ALICE ROBERTS

A beautifully rendered picture of the startling new discoveries in human biology which are radically altering our understanding of how we function and what our future holds

BRIAN COX

Reading The Secret Body is like spending time with an eloquent, well-connected and entertaining enthusiast who has intimate knowledge of the secret worlds that lie within all of us

Roger Highfield

A big-picture forecast of how medicine stands on the threshold of a revolution that will radically change all of our lives ... Davis is a polar opposite of the typecast propeller-hatted futurologist. He is beguilingly informal and affably humorous

The Times

An elegantly written and splendidly concise Cook's Tour of the frontiers of medical biology. It is also an engrossing account of the progress of science

Wall Street Journal

A brilliant deep-dive into the latest discoveries of human health. An inspiration!

TIM SPECTOR, No.1 bestselling author of Spoon-Fed

With this stunning book Daniel M. Davis joins the pantheon of truly great science communicators. It will change the way you think about your self and the people around you. Everyone who has a body will love it

CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, No.1 bestselling author of Ultra-Processed People

What we now know about the human body would seem magical to people just a hundred years ago... It often reads like a detective story and anyone interested in biology will learn much from this enjoyable book

VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry and author of Gene Machine