The Magic of Reality

The Magic of Reality provides a beautiful, accessible and wide ranging volume that addresses the questions that all of us have about the universe...written with the masterful and eloquently literate style of perhaps the best popular expositor of science, Richard Dawkins, and delightfully illustrated by Dave McKean. What more could anyone ask for?

Lawrence Krauss, author of Quantum Man, and A Universe from Nothing.

It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read . . . Explanations I thought I knew were clarified; things I never understood were made clear for the first time.

Philip Pullman

I wanted to write this book but I wasn't clever enough. Now I've read it, I am.

Ricky Gervais

From the first sentence it reads with the force and fluency of a classic ... a luminous, authoritative prose that transcends age differences.

The Times

A charming and free-ranging history of science.

Sunday Times

Stunning in appearance ... the book is a triumph.

New Scientist

Prodigiously illustrated and beautifully designed ... I cannot think of a better, or simpler, introduction to science.

Guardian

This book may be exactly what's needed to increase science literacy for readers of all ages.

Publishers Weekly

The text is persuasive whatever one's age ... the chapter on rainbows has the clearest explanation of how they appear that I've ever seen.

The Financial Times

Dawkins uses a simple, brilliant technique highly appealing to young and old.

The Washington Post

This book is primarily aimed at teenagers, but plenty of adults will get a kick out of it too...McKean's drawings bring the text to life brilliantly ... Dawkins writes convincingly about everything from chemistry to statistics.

Independent on Sunday

With fabulous illustrations by Dave McKean, Richard Dawkins' The Magic of Reality is an outstanding science book. Written in a simple. conversational style that will appeal to adults as well as teenagers, it really does explain complex subjects clearly. Every home should have a copy of this beautifully produced book.

Marilyn Brocklehurst, The Bookseller