Prizing Experience:

	Experience wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography (The Irish Times, 6 January 2002).
	"Extinct Sea Creatures Keep Amis Off Shortlist." Nigel Reynolds of the Telegraph on heavy water on the book prize seas (23 May 2001).
	"Creatures Kept Amis from Top Prize" (The Independent, 24 May 2001): "The autobiography of celebrated novelist Martin Amis was widely acclaimed in literary circles and considered a favourite for Britain's richest non-fiction award, the Samuel Johnson prize. But the pundits hadn't counted on an outsider, in the shape of a science book recounting the previously untold story of a family of marine arthropods extinct for more than 500 million years. Trilobite! Eyewitness To Evolution - by Richard Fortey, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum - includes among its fans author Bill Bryson. It joins two historical books and three biographies on the shortlist for the £30,000 prize.
	"A Good Read, in Fact." Giles Gordon of the Times (London) on the Samuel Johnson Prize (23 May 2001).