Leviathan: Or, the Whaleby Philip Hoare
A book about a life long obsession with whales inspired by the literary classic Moby-Dick has won the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction prize.
'A superb book...This is the book [Philip Hoare] was born to write, a classic of its kind', Rachel Cooke wrote in The Observer.
'In Hoare's hands, whales are almost limitlessly strange and interesting', noted the Sunday Times.
Nominee
Bad ScienceBen Goldacre
From an expert with a mail-order PhD to debunking the myths of homeopathy, Ben Goldacre talking the reader through some notable cases and shows how to you don't need a science degree to spot "bad science" yourself. Independent
His book aims to teach us better, in the hope that one day we write less nonsense. Daily Telegraph
For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, "Bad Science" can not be beaten. You'll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods in the bin.'Trevor Philips, Observer
Unmissable!laying about himself in a froth of entirely justified indignation, Goldacre slams the mountebanks and bullshitters who misuse science.
Few escape: drug companies, self-styled nutritionists, deluded researchers and journalists all get thoroughly duffed up. It is enormously enjoyable. The Times
