The World'The World' by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Haiti, Congo and Cambodia as well as Europe, China and America. Starting with the first footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago,

apprenticed himself to their powerful minds

doctors didn't think Ben would survive - then they didn't think he'd wake up

and sowing in modules

rocks and weather systems co-operate

the best in the world in his position

There are three courses

Helen Oyeyemi

can benefit from in their own lives

Starting at Blackpool

but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows

they couldn't know the series of violent events set off by their investigations

When one of the villagers is also killed people begin to wonder - could it be the work of a werewolf