Essential reading in the time of coronavirus: the international bestseller that will make you realise things are better than you thought

The author renowned for being a Brian Cox or Atul Gawande-like figure in the field of statistics completed this statement on the post-truth power of facts with his son and daughter-in-law prior to his death in 2017, revealing here the ten instincts that lead the public to misinterpret urgent global realities.

I recommend starting 2021 with the late Hans Rosling's book, Factfulness - for incontrovertible evidence of "the secret, silent miracle of human progress."