Ginny Smith & Melanie Challenger

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Two science authors on the show today, both with new books that look at different ways of what makes us human. First up it’s Shambles regular, Ginny Smith chatting to Robin and Josie about her new book Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals, which is out today! And then they chat with Melanie Challenger about her new release, How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human.

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Reading List

Books recommended this week include:

Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith

How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger

The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb

Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Psycho-Logical by Dean Burnett

The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Julia Shaw

A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran

The Trouble with Being Born by Emil Cioran

Metamorphosis by Franz Kakfa

Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon

The Soul of the White Ant by Eugène Marais

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by Anders Fager

The Repeater Book of the Occult

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