Lucy Inglis BornThe untold history of childbirth336pp. Bloomsbury Continuum. £25. Hannah Marsh ThreadA Caesarean story of myth, magic andmedicine320pp. Leap. £20. Lucy Inglis’s new book Born: The unto

Tom Ough The Anti-Catastrophe LeagueThe pioneers and visionaries on a questto save the world336pp. Mudlark. £22. David Spears and Michael Geruso After the SpikeThe risks of global depopulation and the

Simone De Beauvoir The Image of HerTranslated by Lauren Elkin208pp, Penguin Vintage Classics, £14.99 The first reviews of Simone De Beauvoir’s novel Les Belles images (1966) were dismissive. Some crit

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Author and Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett picks out the reads that will help get your pulse racing

We are all told the same story as children: that we grew from a single cell into a human being. We learn that all of our trillions of cells developed from the first union of egg and sperm, and that we