Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review—B

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the s

The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: “A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling” (Ian McEwan).

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell thes

Looks at why animals build, explores the building processes of a variety of species, and discusses how a study of animal building behavior can provides an under