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1. Fred Hoyle: A life in science by Simon Mitton, Aurum Press
2. Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations edited by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Oxford University Press
3. The 21st Century Brain by Steven Rose, Jonathan Cape/Random House
4. Hippocratic Oaths by Raymond Tallis, Atlantic Books
5. The Life and Death of Smallpox by Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn, Profile Books
6. Empire of the Stars by Arthur Miller, Little, Brown
7. Living with Germs by John Playfair, Oxford University Press
8. The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases edited by Jeff Vandermeer and Mark Roberts, Tor Books
9. Cassell’s Tales of Endurance by Fergus Fleming, Cassell/Orion
10. The Infinite Book by John Barrow, Jonathan Cape/Random House

Information supplied by Heffers, Cambridge (fax 01223 568591), for bestsellers in popular science first published in hardback or paperback in the UK within the past year.

Simon Mitton’s biography of Fred Hoyle, reviewed here last week, is already topping the pops in Cambridge – as well it might, him having done so much there before leaving with unhappy tales to tell. The rest shows a strong interest in medicine and biology – from the philosophical discussion of what health is in Hippocratic Oaths to the whimsy of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide…