Meteorites, particularly Martian ones, are Monica Grady鈥檚 forte. Based at
London鈥檚 Natural History Museum, Grady says that above all she reads for
pleasure. Right now she鈥檚 getting to grips with cosmology 鈥渂efore we bounce back
into a singularity鈥� by trekking through Alan Guth鈥檚 The Inflationary Universe
(Vintage, 1998).
On the fiction front, Grady has just finished Birdsong and Charlotte Gray by
Sebastian Faulks (Vintage), which she says evoked the compassion she had felt on
reading Pat Barker鈥檚 trilogy, Regeneration (Viking, 1996). Her all-time
favourite read is James Joyce鈥檚 Ulysses (Penguin, 2000). Grady also admits to an
addiction to historical romances, so Georgette Heyer figures strongly on her
bookshelves.