Wellcome Collection books explore health and human experience. From birth and beginnings to illness and loss, our titles grapple with life’s big questions through compelling writing and beautiful design. In partnership with leading independent publisher Profile Books, we champion essential voices and fresh perspectives across history, memoir, psychology, medicine, and science.
Wellcome Collection is a free museum that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health by connecting science, medicine, life and art. It is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that supports science to solve urgent health challenges, working in more than 70 countries, with a focus on mental health, global heating and infectious diseases.
Words Fail Us
Jonty Claypole
A lifelong stutterer dismantles the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy
Intensive Care
Gavin Francis
On the pandemic's forgotten front lines, a doctor cares for his community – from care homes to homeless shelters, islands to the inner city
Happiness, a Mystery
Sophie Hannah
Bestselling crime writer, poet and confessed self-help addict Sophie Hannah sets out to solve the age-old mystery of happiness
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better
Together
Vivek H. Murthy
Barack Obama's former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic – and how we can overcome it
The Rules of Contagion
Adam Kucharski
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour
Breaking & Mending
Joanna Cannon
The unforgettable memoir from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie
Chasing the Sun
Linda Geddes
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood
Beneath the Skin
Ned Beauman
Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection
Schadenfreude
Tiffany Watt Smith
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package