Dignity by Michael Rosen, The Shrink and the Sage by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro and iDisorder by Larry D Rosen, with Nancy A Cheever and L Mark Carrier
The author of Notes from a Small Island and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid talks about writers' irrepressible urge to share 'amazing information'
The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012 launches today. We have asked 14 writers to reflect on their favourite science writing over the coming weeks. Tim Radford lights the fuse
Rupert Sheldrake has researched telepathy in dogs, crystals and Chinese medicine in his quest to explore phenomena that science finds hard to explain. He speaks to Tim Adams