I was very excited to have just received the cover design from Oxford University Press, the publishers of my new book ‘Insulin, The Crooked Timber – a History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold’ which will be released this December to mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin – a milestone in medicine that has saved countless lives – including my own. It’s a story that in parts I have likened to ‘Game of Thrones’ but enacted with lab coats and pipettes instead of chain mail and poisoned daggers, albeit one for which myself and many others are very grateful.