Stuff Matters

An exploration of human creativity. From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, it reveals the inner workings of the man-made world, the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day.

Enthralling . . . A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives

A certain sort of madness may be necessary to pull off what he has attempted here, which is a wholesale animation of the inanimate: Miodownik achieves precisely what he sets out to

Insightful, fascinating. The futuristic materials will elicit gasps . Makes even the most everyday substance seem exciting

Expert, deftly written, immensely enjoyable

Wonderful. Miodownik writes well enough to make even concrete sparkle

I stayed up all night reading this book . Miodownik writes with such knowledge, such enthusiasm, such a palpable love for his subject

Superb storytelling . . . fascinating . . . a delightful book on a subject that is relatively rarely written about

This is a hugely enjoyable marriage of science and art

A Financial Times Master of Science and chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, where he is also Director of the Institute of Making. He is the author of the book Stuff Matters – a New York Times bestseller which won the Royal Society Winton Prize – and Liquid , which was shortlisted for the same prize. He presents BBC TV and radio programmes on science and engineering such as Everyday Miracles and How It Works.