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Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939. War is coming. The British believe that, through ingenuity and scientific prowess, they alone have a war-winning weapon: radar. They are wrong. The Germans have it too.They believ...

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At the start of WW2 the Allies were still using celestial navigation to find their way across the skies. They had no means of detecting enemy planes.Unbeknownst to them, the Germans were swiftly developing the technology that would mean they could do just this. If they succeeded in deploying this against the Allies, the outcome of the war could have been very different. But there was one man helping the British government with their own scient...

At a time of fear and anxiety, leading writers offer reassurance by looking at twenty ways the response to the coronavirus pandemic could make the world a better place.The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is a once-in-a-century event, a tragedy and a source of deep anxiety. But in darkness there is light, in tackling the most impossible challenges, human ingenuity forges new and positive paths forward.In his introduction, Professor Graham Davey...

Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times, and a bad loser. His has spent countless hours phoning experts and distilling their knowledge - normally about rather more serious subjects than games. He has also been a feature writer for Times2 - and still writes freelance features for the Economist Intelligent Life among other magazines. His wife has stopped playing Scrabble with him because, she claims, he is the sort of person who learns al...

The naked truth behind gender in the modern world. The Science Editor of "The Times" explores the most surprising questions about the differences between the sexes and looks at the central psychology of our relationships.

Destroy the competition on game night with this seriously funny guide packed with handy strategy, tricks, and tips from the expertsGames are way more fun to play when you win—especially when you crush your friends and family! In How to Win Games and Beat People, Times science editor Tom Whipple explores inside tips, strategy, and advice from a ridiculously overqualified array of experts that will help you dominate the competition when playing ...

Explains how to win all kinds of games, with advice and tips from experts. A mathematician tells how to approach Connect 4, a racing driver tells how to take corners in Scalextric, and a mime artist tells how to do the best Charades.