Meteorites, particularly Martian ones, are Monica Grady’s forte. Based at
London’s Natural History Museum, Grady says that above all she reads for
pleasure. Right now she’s getting to grips with cosmology “before we bounce back
into a singularity” by trekking through Alan Guth’s The Inflationary Universe
(Vintage, 1998).
On the fiction front, Grady has just finished Birdsong and Charlotte Gray by
Sebastian Faulks (Vintage), which she says evoked the compassion she had felt on
reading Pat Barker’s trilogy, Regeneration (Viking, 1996). Her all-time
favourite read is James Joyce’s Ulysses (Penguin, 2000). Grady also admits to an
addiction…
