Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People which is a striking study by a medical researcher and broadcaster about the harm that certain kinds of ‘ultra-processed’ food may be doing to us. He explains his case well, and documents his argument with extensive references to the scientific literature, but there is a lot about the book which is controversial.

David Grann’s The Wager - a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder from the mid-C18.

Nick Bryant’s When America Stopped Being Great is an interesting and very readable discussion – by a former BBC correspondent – of America’s path from Reagan to Trump.