Invisible

As a harvest of fascinating facts delivered with sharp wit and insight, it is hard to fault

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Daily Telegraph

Intriguing

John Carey, Sunday Times

If Ball’s voice is lost in the information, that is his aim: the unseen narrator lets the bewitching facts speak for themselves

New Statesman

A fascinating compendium… Another author might struggle to manage such an esoteric collection [of stories of invisibility] but Mr Ball’s writing is incisive enough to keep the different elements hanging and working together

The Economist

Ball marshals his material with deftness and charm

Literary Review

[A] fantastic feast of ideas and information on the subject… In this enthralling book, Philip Ball’s elegant and intelligent mastery…is very evident indeed

Evening Standard

One of the most engaging contemporary science writers… Excellent

Clive Cookson, Financial Times

Original and thought-provoking… The writing is crisp and often witty [and] packed with abstruse information

Salley Vickers, Observer

[Ball] is indefatigable, polymathic and conscientious… Project by project, his books are getting better

Simon Ings, New Scientist

Quirky, wide-ranging… Down [Ball’s] intellectual side-roads we better understand why brilliant, otherwise rational people – Conan Doyle, Abraham Lincoln and many eminent scientists – could be seduced by the supernatural

The Times

Fantastic feast of ideas and information… Ball’s elegant and intelligent mastery of both [science and magic] is very evident indeed

Claire Harman, Scotsman

[An] unusual and clever book

Money Science