LettersThe letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time.

Picture a mantis raising up its blades

and making the most out of your weekly shop

At her side is her new assistant

As founding director of Cornell University's Carl Sagan Institute

collectors and the international community of manuscript scholars

then from his past

The London tree

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world

and the voices of the characters she knew so well from Call the Midwife

This oath sends him over the ancient wall and into a strange and dangerous world

a tiny ketch

And within all these lives is the story of England itself: a story of nostalgia and irony