Tom Morton Smith: 5 books

The Earthworks by Tom Morton-Smith: ‘The universe doesn’t care if we know how it works.’ On the eve of the activation of the Large Hadron Collider, two strangers – a journalist and a scientist – share their experiences of loss and hope in a funny but deeply touching one-act...

1939: Fascism spreads across Europe, Franco marches on Barcelona and two German chemists discover the processes of atomic fission. In Berkeley, California, theoretical physicists recognise the horrendous potential of this new science: a weapon that draws its power from the very building blocks of...

Dylan Singer needs to leave London. With his alcoholic ex-fiancée he heads to Central Asia, to research the book he's always dreamt of writing. But it's 2002, the height of the War on Terror, and Uzbekistan isn't the belly-dancing opium den they have been led to believe. From 11th Century Samarkand,...

‘I don’t think we’ll get to Mars … not really … not normal people. Scientists might … it’ll end up a scientific outpost like Antarctica … but it won’t be for people like you and me.’ Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on Horsell Common. She believes something is buried...

"You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ... over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the heart is ... home is where the heart is." A coastline erodes, a house falls into the...