Like the best popular science books, this is meant for everyone, written in a straightforward style that has the structure of a novel and the insight of a philosophical treatise.Īnd there are three reasons in particular you should start reading it immediately.ġ. Gleick’s book is the answer, but I can assure you that this book isn’t just for scientists or even science-enthusiasts. That might sound a bit grandiose – after all, with all the different disciplines and subdisciplines of science, how could any one field change all of science? It’s only fitting, given that the science of chaos it describes changed science itself in a permanent and, in my lay opinion, healthy and beautiful way. I was already excited to write a post about James Gleick’s Chaos: Making a New Science after mentioning it at the end of my post on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.īut, man, I never expected to like it this much.Ĭhaos is one of those rare books that permanently changes the way you understand the world.
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My latest novel Haven(2022) is an adventure story about the first three people to set foot on the island now known as Skellig Michael, around the year 600: a scholar-priest called Artt who has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind and find an isolated spot to found a monastery, and young Trian and old Cormac who agree to follow him into the unknown. I adapted it into the 2022 film with director Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch, starring Florence Pugh, produced by Element Pictures (who made Room) and House Productions for Netflix. The Wonder (2016, a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year), is about a 'fasting girl' in nineteenth-century Ireland and the English nurse sent to watch her. My theatrical adaptation of Room with songs by Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph had productions in England, Scotland and Ireland in 2017 and Canada in 2022, and is set to run on Broadway starring Tony-winner Adrienne Warren from April to September 2023. I adapted it into my first feature film, Room, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, which was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Actress (won by our lead, Brie Larson). My novel Room (2010) was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and has sold almost three million copies. Born in Dublin in 1969, I am an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and playright, living in Canada with my family. 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