Author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, chairing this year’s judges, says finalists are ‘as interesting, useful and accessible as any writing you will find in any genre’
Bill Bryson has warned that readers are “short-changing themselves” if they aren’t reading science books, as he revealed the shortlist for a literary award he called “the Nobel prize of science writing”.
Bryson, who is chairing the judging panel for this year’s Royal Society Insight Investment science book prize, said that “science books tend to get pigeonholed”, and that “a lot of people don’t read science books – they’re not interested, or think they have no natural affinity for it”.
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