TheBody Illustrated

THE BOOK: Number One bestseller The Body now stunningly illustrated in 4-colour throughout with over 450 photographs and illustrations to complement and enhance the text, with an updated afterword from Bill Bryson reflecting on Covid-19.THE AUTHOR: Bill Bryson is the UK's Number One narrative non-fiction author, with sales in excess of 15m copies achieved over his 30 year career. Now retired, The Body is his final book.THE COMPS: The illustrated edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything has sold 100K copies worldwide. Planet Earth has sold 215K UK TCM, The Blue Planet has sold 171K TCM, Blue Planet II has sold 195K TCM, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney has sold 71,079 UK TCM.THE CAMPAIGN: Targeted digital advertising to 6 million readers, extensive social media gifting campaign to reach a further 2 million as well as gifting recommendations in national press and magazines. Key partnerships with exhibitions such as the Wellcome Collection. POS and window displays in bookshops.THE PROFILE: A Number One bestseller in the UK in hardback and paperback and an international bestseller worldwide, UK TCM of the combined hardback and paperback sales exceed 400,000 copies.

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005–2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.

'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson... richly interesting... an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book. If it sells hundreds of thousands of copies, like the last one, it will be no bad thing.'A directory of wonders. Extraordinary stories about the heart, lungs, genitals ... plus some anger and life advice - all delivered in the inimitable Bryson styleSCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019: 'so packed with arresting facts (you eat 60 tons of food in a lifetime) and unlikely anecdotes (such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel's six weeks with a half-sovereign lodged in his throat) that you barely notice the sheer volume of anatomical knowledge you're digesting ... makes complex subjects simple and eminently entertaining.'Bryson feeds the pith, pulp and bitter pips of a subject into his brain and produces a sweet, zingy quantity of juice - this book is a delight.Remarkable ... Every page is dense with scientific facts written as vividly as a thriller, as well as answers to conundrums such as why we don't fall out of bed when we are asleep ... It is woven through with the kind of human stories that Bryson has made his trademark.

Number One Bestseller in both hardback and paperback
The Sunday Times Book of the Year
The ideal gift for everybody
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'A directory of wonders.' Guardian

'Jaw-dropping.' The Times

'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' The Sunday Times

'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' Daily Telegraph
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'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'

Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts, astonishing stories and now fully illustrated for the first time, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.

A wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. The ideal gift for readers of every age who wish to discover more about themselves.

'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. There really is no story more amazing than the story of us.' Bill Bryson