Cosmology Reading List

Hi Paul,Sadly, there's nothing really available with 'a bit of maths' - it's either layman all the way, or it's textbook. I guess there's Penrose's Road to Reality, but the maths in that 'layman' book is worse than most textbooks Good layman books are by Brian Greene - Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos, etc. Also Hawking's two: Brief History and Universe in a Nutshell - worth chewing through but certainly not as understandable as Greene.Something a bit more basic and real Cosmology-based, rather than the theoretical stuff is 'Bang! The Complete History of the Universe' by no less than Brian May of Queen fame A great great book none-the-less.

Yep, PCWD writes well and is fairly sound. He hasn't done much in a long long while, and he has quite a few off-mainstream ideas (no bad thing, of course) but I'd certainly recommend his books with the caveat that I haven't actually read nay of his more recent works (i.e in last 15 years!).