LET'S face it, science textbooks can be boring. Not A Time Traveller’s Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything though – a new and refreshing approach to scientific reading.
Combining co-author Dr Ian Flitcroft’s scientific expertise and literary credentials with Britt Spencer’s whimsical comic artwork, the book guides young adults through physic’s greatest issues and ideas.
The book begins with Einstein discussing the power of thought and questioning how light travels.
Einstein then whisks his companion (and the reader) along with him on journey through 3000 years of space and time to answer questions about the Big Bang, relativity, climate change and more with guest appearances from the likes of Plato, Newton and Galileo thrown in for fun (and fact).
Amongst this fun however, readers will get lots of the robust scientific training and knowledge from Dr Flitcroft.
Studying medicine at Oxford University, followed by a doctorate in visual physiology, he is now a vision scientist and consultant eye surgeon at the Children’s University Hospital, Dublin.
Dr Flitcroft proved his literary force in his first novel The Reluctant Cannibals - winner of the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Competition 2012 it was also shortlisted for Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013.
Meanwhile Spencer provides vivid yet informative illustration to bring the journey alive.
Award-winning and recognized by the likes of the New York Society of Illustrators, Spencer's talent brings the book to life over 36 chapters and 200 pages.
Go forth and learn all you budding scientists!
A Time Traveller’s Guide to Life, the Universe & Everything by Ian Flitcroft and Britt Spencer, published by The O'Brien Press. Available from all good bookshops and from www.obrien.ie priced £12.99/€14.99
