Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011          Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011          Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011          Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Paperback edition of the history of cancer, from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control and conquer it, to a radical new understanding of its essence. 'The notion of 'popular science' doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature.' "Observer"