James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes On FASTER: 'It's an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don't hang around -- go out and buy it right now.' Robert Macfarlane, Observer 'Brilliantly dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can into the 1,400 minutes of the day.' Sunday Times Books of the Year On ISAAC NEWTON 'The book has the magic of a wonderful laboratory experiment!A masterpiece of clarity -- so difficult to write, so easy to read.' Michael Holroyd 'A fresh and brilliant portrait of his personality and life, the people who mattered to him, the influences which played on him, and the contexts of his achievements.' Oliver Sacks 'After reading Jim Gleick's beautifully written and intimate portrait of Newton, I felt as is I'd spent an evening by the fire with that complex and troubled genius.' Alan Lightman 'It's beautifully paced and very stylishly written: compact, atmospheric, elegant. It offers a brilliant and engaging study in the paradoxes of the scientific imagination' Richard Holmes