- The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester, Viking
- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Bantam
- The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes, Bantam
- The Queen鈥檚 Conjuror by Benjamin Woolley, HarperCollins
- The Blue Planet by Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes, BBC
- Dawkins vs. Gould by Kim Sterelny, Icon
- What Shape is a Snowflake? by Ian Stewart, Weidenfeld
- Annie鈥檚 Box by Randal Keynes, Fourth Estate
- How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press
- The Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah Cadbury, Fourth Estate
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Britain within the past year.