Jo Marchant Audiobooks

In Search of Now, where a geneticist's training meets a historian's long view

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Who is Jo Marchant?

Jo Marchant is an English freelance journalist and author specialising in the fertile ground where science meets history. She brings proper scientific credentials to the work – a BSc in genetics from the University of Leicester, followed by a PhD in genetics – which lends her writing an authority that a good deal of science journalism has to borrow.

Working freelance rather than from a single staff desk, she has made that dual specialism her signature: a writer trained in the laboratory but drawn to the long view, asking how we came to know what we think we know.

Jo Marchant in audiobooks

In Search of Now, the Marchant title in our catalogue, suits her method: a science-and-history writer turned loose on a subject the title signals plainly – the present moment, and what we make of it. The genetics training means the science can be trusted to be handled properly; the historian’s instinct keeps the storytelling human.

For UK listeners this is thoughtful nonfiction that rewards undivided ears – better on a long walk than in heavy traffic – and the kind of listen likely to leave you looking at the everyday a little differently.