- The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
- Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters by Matt Ridley, Fourth Estate
- Almost Like A Whale by Steve Jones, Doubleday
- Galileo鈥檚 Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
- The Private Life of the Brain by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane/Penguin Press
- Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter, Orion
- Faster: The acceleration of just about everything by James Gleick, Abacus
- Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments against evolutionary psychology edited by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, Jonathan Cape
- Brain Story by Susan Greenfield, BBC Consumer Publishing
- The Maths Gene by Keith Devlin, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Fancy discussing a book with its author? Try the Cheltenham Festival of
Literature (www.cheltenhamfestivals.co.uk/) this month. It features the
culture of explanation on 14 October, in which Susan Greenfield will be debating
whether it鈥檚 possible to popularise the hard stuff of science. Also at the
festival will be historian Roy Porter discussing the Enlightenment, and John
Gribbin taking on the Universe. And a philosopher鈥檚 cafe will be open to tackle
the big questions.
Information supplied by Blackwell鈥檚, (Fax +44 20 7240 9665), for bestsellers
in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in Britain within
the past year.