Peter Gethers' trio of books about the globe-trotting Norton are witty and warm. We not only learn of Norton's sweet personality but also about the author's feelings about what really matters when it comes to love and cats

Gethers captures the joy and sadness of loving and losing a pet. Bottom line: Tuesdays with Norton

Nine lives wasn't enough for Norton. He needed ten! I'll miss my literary friend

Laugh-out-loud and tear-jerking recollections: Gethers makes Norton an immortal, delivering an affecting narrative that belongs on the bookshelf of all cat fanciers

Georgina Ferry's biography captures not only the scientific advances made by Perutz but also his curious personal qualities

Ferry's story... proceeds with pace and clarity, explaining the science vividly and buoyed throughout by an infectious enthusiasm

[A] marvellous biography of one of the least known of the twentieth century's great scientists...Ferry has mined gold into the lives of two of the founders of structural biology; I can't wait to see who she tackles next

Max Perutz, one of science's great ambassadors... has been given a meaty biography by former New Scientist writer Georgina Ferry

Georgina Ferry has produced a first rate account of his life... there is no difficult physics and the story will appeal to anyone who wants to know how science works and how exciting scientific research can be

As unexpected as it is brilliant... A moving, powerful meditation on the natural world that envelops us, even in the heart of our cities

Haunting and passionate.... in graceful, poetic prose, compels us to look again and marvel at the 'storm of life over our heads

The year's most unusual travel book

[An] eye-opening and hugely enjoyable book

Written in a delectable prose that scatters flashes of poetry over a sardonic undertow of social comment, Edgelands is a lyrical triumph. On Britain’s grotty margins, the duo trace “desire paths” to find beauty and mystery in the rough darkness on the edge of town