Circulation

As soon as I started this book, I was gripped with curiosity

William Leith, Spectator

Thomas Wright's lively little book on Harvey's revolutionary idea is a panegyric to the man's whirring mind, and to the excitements of thinking more generally

Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph

In Circulation, Wright tells a good story, warts and all

Duncan Wu, Independent

Thomas Wright's book opens brilliantly and bloodily and continues in the same vein...a captivating intellectually gripping journey into our country's scientific past

Druin Burch, Mail on Sunday

[An] acute, imaginative book

John Carey, Sunday Times

A vivid biography of William Harvey, which reveals his complex character

Patricia Fara, BBC History Magazine

It’s a pretty gruesome story – told very well here by Thomas Wright

William Leith, Evening Standard

A book that combines scholarly science with narrative excitement to spectacular effect

Mark Lawson

A concise, skilful and eloquent book

Charles Nicholl, Guardian

The little man of 'perpetual movement' has found a fine advocate in Thomas Wright, whose highly readable Circulation combines recent scholarship with more than a touch of drama

Times Literary Supplement

Thomas Wright's lucid biography...deftly puts Harvey into his cultural context

Hermione Eyre, Prospect

Excellent and often bloodthirsty... A highly readable account of a great Englishman

Tablet

An engaging and lively account of an endlessly curious man

Independent