Should you read this book?

Nope. Really sorry. All well written stories. Some more fragmentary. Nothing wrong with them. Netflix is better.

Yes if you want a brilliant horror story gradually revealed.   It put me off meat eating and farming generally. I was a vegan for a few hours there.

Only read this if you are a History Geek, in which case you will enjoy it v much. Shakespeare didn't call any of his plays Edward IV. He wrote about Henry VI and Richard III on either side. Is that why Ed IV is slightly shadowy? More famous are his sons (the princes in the tower) his brother (Richard III) his grandson (Henry VIII) great granddaughter (Elizabeth 1) and cousin Warwick the Kingmaker. But Edward himself is brilliant and well worth the attention.

Yes. Everyone should read this one. In conjunction with WTF that's just about everything covered. Beautifully clear writing in a chatty style, gradually explaining complex (for me) ideas. Really thought provoking about early humans. So worrying you come out the other side of worry. We caused a mass extinction 13000 years ago and we're doing a mega one right now. We've turned the world back into Pangaea - the original single land mass. We've reunited species that have spent millennia apart.  Amazing stuff in here on Neadertals and orangutans. My favourite line is "what gene made us so different to Neanderals that we could kill them off, then dig them up and piece together their genome?"