Review

8 June 1996

Bestsellers from London

  1. Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins, Viking

  2. In the Blood by Steve Jones, HarperCollins

  3. About Time by Paul Davies, Penguin

  4. Schrödinger’s Kittens by John Gribbin, Phoenix

  5. You are a Mathematician by D. G. Wells, Penguin

  6. Why Nothing Can Travel Faster than Light by David Zimmerman and Barry Zimmerman, Cassell

  7. The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey, Phoenix

  8. The Last Three Minutes by Paul Davies, Phoenix

  9. Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, Coronet

  10. Hyperspace by Michio Kaku, Oxford

The double punch of a new television series plus book launch takes Steve Jones straight to number two. Fast moving for a former snail geneticist!

Information supplied by W. H. Smith, Swindon (Fax 01793 562570) for bestsellers in science first published in hardback or paperback in Britain within the past 12 months. For more reviews see Planet Science at http://www.newscientist.com.

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