Review
Written with all the clarity and elegance of which Dawkins is a master. It should have a place in every school library – especially in the library of every “faith” school — Philip Pullman
A resounding trumpet blast for truth… It feels like coming up for air — Matt Ridley
A spirited and exhilarating read… Dawkins comes roaring forth in the full vigour of his powerful arguments, laying into fallacies and false doctrines with the energy of the polemicist at his most fiery — Joan Bakewell, Guardian
This is my favourite book of all time… a heroic and life-changing work — Derren Brown
One of the best non-fiction writers alive today — Steven Pinker
About the Author
Richard Dawkins is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and a fellow of New College.
The Selfish Gene catapulted Richard Dawkins to fame and remains his most famous and widely read work. It was followed by a string of bestselling books: The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Ancestor’s Tale and a collection of his shorter writings A Devil’s Chaplain. Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1997 International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science, the Kistler Prize in 2001 and the Shakespeare Prize in 2005.
The God Delusion was originally published in 2006 and has since become a worldwide bestseller.
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