Television presenter Adam Hart-Davis has to read a whole heap of science, history and history-of-science books for research. When he’s not “hopelessly busy”, he still likes books. He’s stuck into Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal (Arrow, 1995), first read 30 years ago but “I still find it hard to put it down”. Given a signed copy by the author, he’s also enjoying James Dyson’ s struggle with dust in Against the Odds (Texere, 2000).
Hart-Davis’s doctorate is in organometallic chemistry, so he’s indulging his passion for chemistry with Georgina Ferry’s Dorothy Hodgkin (Granta, 1999), “a most enjoyable story” of the winner of the…
