Sarah Rowland-Jones
Human immunology specialist Sarah Rowland-Jones, says her current reading
could disappoint those expecting scientists to devote their spare time to works
of great literature and philosophy. She relaxes with books that entertain.
Much of her work is in Africa, so she enjoyed The Mind Game by Hector
MacDonald (Michael Joseph, 2001) and John Le CarrĂ©’s The Constant
Gardener (Hodder, 2000), both of which deal with medical research in Kenya.
MacDonald’s book links Oxford to the Kenyan coast in a story of a student
embroiled in a project to test a device for reading human emotions. The Constant…
