- Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel, Fourth Estate
- The Code Book by Simon Singh, Fourth Estate
- Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan, Allen Lane/Penguin
- The End of Time by Julian Barbour, Phoenix Press
- Ingenious Pursuits by Lisa Jardine, Little, Brown
- H2O by Philip Ball, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Walking with Dinosaurs by Tim Haines, BBC Books
- Why Do Buses Come in Threes? by Jeremy Wyndham and Rob Eastaway, Robson Books
- Oxford Figures by John Fauvel, Oxford University Press
Lisa Jardine’s excellent new book Ingenious Pursuits is a bit of a hybrid: a…


