22-04-2025
Alice Roberts: REM saved me when I had nowhere to live
I've got two. The wonderful Richard Fortey's Dry Store Room No 1, which takes you on a tour round the Natural History Museum, and George Eliot's Middlemarch, which I think is a perfect novel.
I've just started Emily Hauser's Mythica. It's really got me enthralled. She starts off talking about being 15 and the joy of being able to read Greek, which resonated with me because I did GCSE Greek and absolutely loved it.
I'm such a huge admirer of all of Stephen Jay Gould's writing, but I would like to have written Wonderful Life, which is about the Burgess Shale and all those amazing creatures that exploded into existence 500 million years ago.
The Great Gatsby. I've watched the
