The ‘Worth reading’ in CHEMISTRY REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 31–32 presented an essay by J. B. S. Haldane that was originally published in 1927. It provided a fascinating glimpse into chemical research between the World Wars, but was not exactly cutting edge in the chemistry it presented. Molecules That Amaze Us was published in 2015 and while some of the information is viewed from a historical perspective, much of it is grounded in the twenty-first century.
The book has been compiled and updated from material written for the Molecule of the Month (MOTM) website (see www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm), which was set up by one of the authors (Paul May) in 1996 and is still going strong. The other author, Simon Cotton, is a major contributor to MOTM and a prolific science writer (see pp. 18–22).
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