January 15th, 2012: Volume 2 is now fully ready and available for sale! Now on to V3...

New Years Eve, 2011: Matt T put the finishing touches on Volume 2! We achieved our deadline of finishing the book in 2011 by a matter of hours, and then had a very pleasant and well-deserved remainder-of-New-Years-Eve. Keep an eye on the website, as the book should be available for purchase in a matter of days. Now on to Volume 3 – phew...

November 15th 2011: Matt T and I have been busy working on Volume 2. It's about 95%+ completed, with draft copies now having been supplied to our proofreaders. Just a few more illustrations to complete, some minor layout issues, etc. We learned a huge amount in the process of completing Volume 1, so our workflow is a lot more efficient this time and we're confident that the new book will be ready for publication before the end of 2011. If you're interested in pre-ordering a copy, please contact us.

In the mean time, we've been and surprised and delighted by all the positive feedback the first book has received. These include endorsements from the eminent physicist Sir Roger Penrose, best-selling popular maths authors Ian Stewart and Cliff Pickover and one of my cultural heros, the musician/poet/storyteller/bard Robin Williamson (he of the Incredible String Band). A few maths bloggers have also been extremely supportive of the project. Unfortunately, this has yet to be reflected in our book sales, but it's early days still...

Also, someone has very kindly set up a Facebook 'fan page' for the book. I personally dislike and refuse to use Facebook, but I'm not going to complain about the existence of this page! In fact, if you're a Facebook user, I'd encourage you to check it out and "befriend" it (or whatever it is that you do with such things) – here.

June 9th 2011: We just got reviewed in the Times Higher Education, a wholly positive review by Nobel physics laureate Brian Josephson (Trinity College, Cambridge)! This is particularly good news, considering that the THE's usual policy is not to review self-published works. And it took up 2/3 of a page. With any luck this might lead to a few more reviews in high places. The online version of the review is here, whereas the printed version looks like this.