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.
Something Out of Place
Eimear McBride
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
Am I Normal?
Sarah Chaney
A deep dive into the strange science of the 'Normal', and the origins of an anxiety-ridden modern obsession
Brainwashed
Daniel Pick
A brilliant and mind-bending exploration of brainwashing and thought control
After the Storm
Emma Jane Unsworth
A raw, relatable call-to-arms account of motherhood, breaking the silence on postnatal depression
An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
An inspiring, moving story of caring from the bestselling author Kate Mosse
This Book is a Plant
The way we think about plants is about to change forever: this is your handbook to a new natural world
Hybrid Humans
Harry Parker
A gripping, eye-opening account of how robotics, computing and AI might be about to alter our understanding of what it means to be human – from the be…
Words Fail Us
Jonty Claypole
A lifelong stutterer dismantles the cult of fluency and champions the creative powers of inarticulacy
Dark and Magical Places
Christopher Kemp
Lose yourself in this extraordinary account of how we navigate the world
Recovery
Gavin Francis
A short, uplifting account of hope and healing by the author of Adventures in Human Being
The War of Nerves
Martin Sixsmith
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it
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