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  1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Doubleday

  2. The Fly in the Cathedral by Brian Cathcart, Viking/Penguin

  3. Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford, Faber and Faber

  4. The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Cape/Random House

  5. Our Final Century by Martin Rees, Heinemann/Random House

  6. Magic Universe by Nigel Calder, Oxford University Press

  7. Tomorrow’s People by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane/Penguin

  8. Einstein’s Clocks, PoincarĂ©’s Maps by Peter Galison, Hodder and Stoughton

  9. Information by Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

  10. Growing Up with Lucy by Steve Grand, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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