Authors Corner

Welcome to Author's corner, where you can find books which changed my life, my worldview and my future.Some are bestsellers and some you may not have heard about. One book changed my entire life and led me from a career in the Prison Service to studying Biosciences at university. That book was given to me as a gift. I had never heard of it and had I not read it, I often wonder how different my life would have been.

Other great books have also continued to add to, and change, my worldview and I wish to spread the word.

A Brief history of time

From the big bang to black holes. This book needs no introduction. It was the first non-fiction book which I ever read in 1988. Everything up until that point was stories, and this book told […]

Climbing-Mount-Improbable

This book wrapped it all up for me, in terms of evolution. It shows with crystal clarity how nature does it one step at a time. If evolution is a mountain, this book explains how […]

River-Out-of-Eden

A Darwinian View of Life This book was the first Richard Dawkins book which I read. It was the catalyst, to read three more of his books, which led me to leaving the Prison Service […]

The-Blind-Watchmaker

This stunning book reveals how nature produces its complex designs and its complex beahviours through simple time and chance. What appears to us as design, is cleverly revealed for its simplicity, with incredible accounts, and […]

The-Selfish-Gene

This ‘multi-million copies sold’ book is another landmark book. River Out of Eden introduces us to thinking like a gene, and The Selfish Gene shows us in incredible detail, how the genes do it all. […]

Unweaving-The-Rainbow

Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder This spellbinding book came later in my life, and it was the first book which tied poetry and science together in a way that I had not seen […]