Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL
Biography: science, technology & medicine
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
‘Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation’ADAM NICOLSON
‘Wonderful, absolutely beguiling … I learnt a lot and really loved it’RICHARD HOLMES
‘Gloriously evocative’ DAILY MAIL
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.
Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ Caitlin Moran
‘Newman is a brilliant writer’ Observer
A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t.
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley
Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize
What if Isaac Newton had never lived?
Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society.
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
Genius of Britain (Text Only)
The extraordinary history of British science, with commentary from Britain’s greatest living scientists: Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and James Dyson
Fingerprints: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity (Text Only)
This edition does not include illustrations.
A fascinating exploration into the history of science and crime. In the tradition of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’, FINGERPRINTS is the story of the race to discover the secrets trapped in the whorls and arches found on the palm of one’s hand.