Since the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, when matter, time, energy and space came into being, and the first species crawled out of the ocean onto land, humans evolved and migrated around the Earth. More than 7,000 people trying to reach Italy have died in the central Mediterranean since 2014, making the Italian route to Europe one of the deadliest in the world. Migrants tells us that this is not a new narrative; this is the history of us all, part of everybody’s backstory - for those who consider themselves migrants and those who do not. Listen to the conversation between Samir and Adlane, a father and son, who explain what it means to migrate. It continues through ancient history, exploring the Bible, Babylon and the Romans, and then on to the present day.

Miller looks at migrants through the broadest of lenses with intriguingly titled chapter heads, anecdotes and unexpected devices designed to keep the reader hooked. Pure are the cities – and you are the ones to whom they are allotted,” a story about the Mesopotamian water god, Enki, begins.The artwork is nothing short of stunning and each and every page could hang in a gallery and perhaps it should, so we are reminded just how lucky we are.

Packed with emotion and reminding us of things once known and half-remembered, they resemble frames from a film whose complex whole we cannot see.

The fruits of settled life seem to inspire – or maybe even demand – rhetorical antipathy towards those who don’t partake. They take your phone and anything of value, plus they make you pay between 10 and 15 francs, and if you don't have it you go to prison.

Britain continues to be a major source of emigrants in the 21st century – not something we often hear about.That the legend of Brutus was a ninth century fantasy concocted by a Welsh monk named Nennius – with the aim of affirming a British place in the club of civilisations – need not concern us. the two World Wars, the Cold War close Cold War The political tension and competition for power that existed between the communist East and the democratic West after World War Two. But overall, the more personal sections are among the most successful and powerfully argued in the book. The book is a vast work of synthesis, and Miller's choices of which episodes to highlight are both expected and distinctive, as any panoramic view of history must be. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.