The World According to Physics, by Jim Al-Khalili Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys an impassioned hymn to the vocation and insights of the physicist By Tara Shears 19 March
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject, by A. Zee Tara Shears enjoys a breathless but substantial introduction to an inescapable force By Tara Shears 14 June
Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science By Tara Shears 19 January
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, by Carlo Rovelli Blow your mind by travelling to the bizarre yet beautiful frontier of physics, says Tara Shears By Tara Shears 27 October
A Singularly Unfeminine Profession: One Woman’s Journey in Physics, by Mary K. Gaillard Tara Shears on the career thrills and frustrations of a female scientist who made history at Berkeley By Tara Shears 10 September
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved, by Marcia Bartusiak The science of gravitational singularities is a head-spinning work in progress, says Tara Shears By Tara Shears 4 June
