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1. A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

2. Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett, Allen Lane/Penguin

3. Galileo’s Finger by Peter Atkins, Oxford University Press

4. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester, Viking/Penguin

5. Faster Than The Speed of Light by João Magueijo, Heinemann/Random House

6. DNA: The secret of life by James Watson, Heinemann/Random House

7. The Hedgehog, The Fox and The Magister’s Pox by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape/Random House

8. Sync by Steven Strogatz, Allen Lane/Penguin

9. Our Final Century by Martin Rees, Heinemann/Random House

10. The Eternal Child by Clive Bromhall, Ebury Press

Information supplied by Blackwell’s, London (fax 020 7240 9665), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in Britain within the past year.

Big book from a small kingdom: Bhutan is the ultimate coffee-table book. Its 100 colour photographs of children in the tiny Himalayan kingdom are bound into the world’s largest book sold in aid of charity. Measuring 1¹/₂ metres by 2 metres when opened, the 60-kilogram book sells for $10,000, with all profits going to publisher Mike Hawley’s Friendly Planet foundation. See