- Can Reindeer Fly? by Roger Highfield, Metro
- The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
- Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel Fourth Estate
- The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan Alan Lane
- Almost Like a Whale by Steve Jones Doubleday
- 85 Ways to Tie a Tie by Robert Fink and Yong Mao, Fourth Estate
- Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins, Penguin
- Genome by Matt Ridley Fourth Estate
Dava Sobel’s Longitude has just made it to the TV screens in
Britain. Galileo’s Daughter would make an excellent tear-jerker:
skeletons mingling in the grave, saintly daughter, heretic father…Better begin
the screenplay right away.
Information supplied by Heffers Cambridge fax (01223) 568 591 for bestsellers
in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the UK within the
past year. See our website for more reviews .