The most influential thinker, in my life, has been Richard Nisbett.

Surely the trickiest puzzle book in years. Crack these fiendish problems and Trivial Pursuit should be a doddle

Ideal for the crossword enthusiast

An explosion of a puzzle collection, too, with hundreds of questions and loads of peripheral material, including captioned photographs and history of twentieth-century British encryption, featuring the work of Alan Turing

This isn't your grandfather's Sudoku book. Rather, it's a puzzle compendium put together by the organisation that made the Bletchley Park breakthroughs - quizzes, bewilderments and brainteasers to challenge even the sharpest of minds

WINNER OF STOCKING FILLER OF THE YEAR AWARD

Exhilarating…vibrant and vivid

Delightful and insightful

His latest book, A Sky Full of Birds, delights in the simple joys of birding in this country.

Fluid, imaginative and poetic yet full of facts...Great stuff

An intensely personal journey and a celebration of the restorative powers of nature

This beautifully written book will transport you to a world where birdwatching is more than just ticking a species off a list. Matt Merritt writes from the heart and takes us on a very personal journey around Britain

Moore writes about this band of ad hoc scientists with brio, and it’s hard not to be awed and charmed by their united quest to prove that earth’s atmosphere was not chaotic beyond comprehension, that it could be studied, understood and, ultimately, predicted … Detailed and insightful, this book is as relevant as ever in this era of rapid climate change.

Rich and enlightening, I’ll never look at a dewy morning in the same way again.

For illuminating a byway of scientific history that many scarcely knew existed we must thank Peter Moore, whose superbly researched an grippingly written book is more than a dusty account of early meteorologists

Moore does an excellent job of telling the story of meteorological advances

enlightening… to read it is a joy

A compelling journey through the early history of weather forecasting, bringing to life the personalities, lives and achievements of the men who put in place the building blocks required for forecasts to be possible.

Enthralling history of weather forecasting… Moore’s book records the adventure, drama and occasional tragedy involved in bringing us the calm reassurance of the nightly weather forecast.

Superbly researched and gripping book… He darts across continents, embracing swashbuckling sea captains and fastidious bureaucrats, penny-pinching politicians and mad inventors, with as sharp an eye for absurdity and tragedy as for genius.