Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health

If you are interested in how culture can improve health and wellbeing, it's worth knowing about this new book from a leading researcher in the field - Professor Daisy Fancourt.

Her work has been used by organisations and practitioners around Hertfordshire, and you can find out more about her team's work at the Social Biobehavioural Research Group at University College London here: https://sbbresearch.org/

These are details from the publisher:
"The new book from Professor Daisy Fancourt - Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health - is published in the UK today.
A groundbreaking exposé showing how the arts – alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature – are the forgotten fifth pillar of health

You can now find Art Cure available in UK bookshops, or order your copy online.

And we're excited to share that the book has just been listed as an Amazon Best Seller and selected as Waterstones’ Top Non-Fiction Pick and the Bookseller’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Other features include: The Guardian’s “Ones to Watch”; Blackwell’s books of 2026; Waterstones‘ January best books round up; Foyles’ top ten reads for January; The i Paper’s best new books to read in January 2026; and New Scientist’s best new popular science books of January 2026."

For more information visit https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462340/art-cure-by-fancourt-daisy/9781529935530