The Living Clock by John Palmer, Oxford University Press, $26, ISBN 019514340X
IT’S RARE to be able to recommend a book on science for holiday reading, but this is one. The Living Clock is a gripper from the first page and never lets go. After you’ve read the entertaining story that begins with author John Palmer knee-deep in the mud of the River Avon and how that led to the clientele of a nearby pub owing him numerous pints of beer, you’ll be glad that there’s much more to come.
The topic is fascinating: the internal clocks that we all…
