ABSTRACT
It is a considerable skill to write a fair and insightful book review, which also needs to be interesting in its own right. Journals vary in the length of a book review that they expect; they can be as short as 500 words and as long as 1,500 words. There are also useful guidelines like ‘State the author’s aims in writing the book and then scrutinise if they have succeeded in those aims’. The reader of the book review also needs a clear final recommendation. A book reviewer who is a Nobel Prize winner reviewing the book authored by another Nobel Prize winner clearly has potential to be a good read. The review of a book on the incredibly diverse topic of research ethics was taken on by emeritus professor of physics at Keele University, Watson Fuller, a superbly insightful coverage of the moral aspects of scientific and medical research.
