An Independent book of the year!

There has been a feverish buzz around Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking over the World since it was published globally inspring 2011. It hit the top of the non-fiction bestseller lists in India and was one of The Independent's best books of 2011. Angela has appeared on Meet the Author on the BBC, spoken at the Edinburgy International Book Festival, Google in San Francisco, Columbia University Journalism School, and completed a whirlwind five-city tour of India.

So what is this book that everyone's talking about? Well, more than a million engineers and scientists graduate from Indian universities and colleges every year, and they are set to transform the country into a technological and scientific superpower. So at the dawn of this scientific revolution, Geek Nation, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Hachette India, is a journey to meet the inventors, engineers and young scientists behind this nation built not on conquest, oil or minerals, but on the scientific ingenuity of its people.

This isn't your typical science book. This is a geeky travelogue, filled with weird, wonderful and entertaining tales. Angela weaves the story of how ancient science is giving way to the new, and how the technology of the wealthy is passing to the poor. Delving inside the psyche of India’s science hungry citizens, she explores the reason why the government of the most religious country on earth has put its faith in science and technology. There are lie detectors, flying machines, thorium-powered nuclear reactors, space rockets and dozens more fascinating ideas and inventions.

Through witty firsthand reportage and penetrative analysis, Geek Nation explains what this means for the rest of the world, and how a spiritual nation squares its soul with hard rationality. Full of curious, colourful characters and gripping stories, it describes India through its people – a nation of geeks.

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Geek Nation is out now in paperback across Europe, and will be available in Asia and the US in May 2012. You can get a copy in all good bookshops in the UK or order it online through Amazon UK, WHSmith, Blackwell's, The Book Depository or Waterstones. There are also a few signed copies available at Foyles in London.

It's also available through Amazon Japan, Amazon Germany and Weltbild, on Bokus in Sweden, on ECI in the Netherlands, on Cosmox in Belgium. Meanwhile readers in the US can order a copy online on Amazon.com or if you are in New York then pop over to the Book Culture store on 536 West 112th Street, where you can buy one in person.

If you are in India, Geek Nation was the Crossword bookstore chain's book of the month for April 2011. You can buy it from all good bookshops, or order a copy from uRead, Indiaplaza and Flipkart or by calling Dial-a-Book on 9650 457 457.

Angela's literary agent is Peter Tallack at The Science Factory. For rights and permissions contact Jason Bartholomew at Hodder, and for publicity in the UK please email Jaime Frost at Hodder. For publicity in India, please email Anurima Roy at Hachette India.