Christmas books : Final frontier

Susan Blackmore boldly goes where psychologists searching for ESP fear to tread—and, having failed to find it, studies why people feel the need to believe in the paranormal. Ten years on from original publication, the new edition of In Search of the Light is now available in Britain (Prometheus Books, £14.50, ISBN 1 573 92061 4). More topical than ever with bestseller lists full of X-files.