When I first sat down to write my latest book, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, I imagined the final draft as rather different from what it actually ended up being. I’ll leave it to readers to decide whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It’s certainly not unusual for authors to do an unexpected about-face as they go deeper into the writing process. But with Perv, the subject matter of sexual deviance (or some of it, anyway) was an especially thorny landscape for me to navigate. When you venture into scientific research on, say, rape, pedophilia, and bestiality—and you can’t avoid them in a science book on sexual deviance—things get heavy fast. As a reader, I’m usually averse to an authorial air of unbridled rage, and I generally prefer to take a lighter tone in my own writing. So, that was a bit of a problem, since like any other person with a soul, such subjects break my heart and can make me quite angry. Continue reading at 'Slate'
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llex Press has acquired "a rich and curious history" of the Moon and what it means to humanity by Alexandra Loske and Robert Massey. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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John Murray is publishing We Have No Idea, a book exploring "everything we don't know about the universe", accompanied by 400 "hilarious" cartoons and infographics. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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When I first sat down to write my latest book, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, I imagined the final draft as rather different from what it actually ended up being. I’ll leave it to readers to decide whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. It’s certainly not unusual for authors to do... Continue reading at Slate
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 06/05/2011 - 10:48 Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired a "major new science book" by genetics specialist and professor, Tim Spector. Commissioning editor Bea Hemming bought world rights to Identically Different from Sophie Lambert at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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