"Elective Affinity: A Tale of Two Cultures?" tries to move beyond the rather tired idea that there are two opposed cultures - the arts and the sciences. Using a number of important texts from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, I try to show how literary writers have engaged with science. Scientists and writers are indeed listening to each other; and some are even talking the same language...

I'd be very interested to hear what people think about the books I discuss, and of any others you know which deserve to be mentioned.