BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction Shortlist
22/05/2009
Science books dominate the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist, announced yesterday:
Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (William Heinemann)
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (Fourth Estate)
The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Simon and Schuster)
Leviathan by Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes (HarperPress)
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar (Icon Books)
Click on the titles to read the reviews. For the longlist, click here
The winner will be announced on 30 June.
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Fleur;
thanks for your reply. i thought that you might not be getting it because i wasn’t sure if you’d see it where i’d left it. also- i figured you wouldn’r reply because i usually don’t ever hear from women after i’ve met them in these circumstances.
bully for you on the plumbing job. go for it! if you need to,please e-mail me or call and i’ll be happy to help you.
i’ll not be at the museum this weekend as i have a flea market i’m part of. have to sell some of tthe accumulated stuff i’ve gathered over the years.however i will be there the following weekend on sat. and i’ll be glad to get you and your friend some tickets. get in touch and we’ll work out the details.
i must tell you how impressed i really am that you’ve confirmed my initial impression of you. i knew that you were a person of great honesty and integrity. your honest response ,while a tad blunt ,was at least truthful and i respect women who are not afraid to say how they feel and not try to be extra nice and give a guy a load of male bovine excrement instead of the straight stuff. i really do appreciate that.
the flaubert link amuses me to no end. i will not empty promise you that i wll definetly rush out and read them( as i do not read much in the way of novels these days), but i will save the link in any event should the time come that i am either totally bored ,or intensely curious enough to try them. i am also pleased that your friend anna liked the e-mail. that tells me that you are not just indulging me. Or are you?
anyway-let me know as soon as you know what your plans are . looking for ward to hearing from you.
ben 212-787-8464
Sending this messqage via your website because when i sent it in response to your e-mail it got rejected.figures doesn’t it?
i’m hoping that you see the e-mails at your website so it won’t take too long to get your reply. if there’s some other better form of e-mail please let me know.
all the best,
ben