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.
An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love by bestselling author Kate Mosse
Resistance
Val McDermid
A gritty, dark tale of infectious disease gone wrong – the timely graphic novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Val McDermid
After the Storm
Emma Jane Unsworth
A powerful, funny call-to-arms account of postnatal depression, from the bestselling author of Animals and Adults
Schadenfreude
Tiffany Watt Smith
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package
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
Together
Vivek H Murthy
Barack Obama's former Surgeon General explores the global loneliness epidemic – and how we can overcome it
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
Beneath the Skin
Ned Beauman
Fifteen talented writers each explore a different body part in this funny and moving collection