Greg Jenner’s A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY published today by Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Greg Jenner’s fantastic A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY is published in hardback today by Orion Publishing Group’s Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Structured around one ordinary day, A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this gloriously entertaining romp through human history Greg Jenner explores the gradual and often unexpected evolution of our daily routines.

This is not a story of politics, wars or great events, instead Greg Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs and Victorian sewers to bring us the most intriguing, surprising and sometimes downright silly nuggets from our past. Drawn from across the world, spanning a million years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of all those things you always wondered – and many you have never considered. It is the story of your life, one million years in the making.

It will be published in paperback in the summer.