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If you鈥檙e looking for gift ideas which will fill minds as well as Christmas stockings, there's nowhere better than聽Science Caf茅鈥檚 annual books programme.

Once again it鈥檚 the time of the year when we ask three scientists to join us and recommend a favourite book. And, once again, we have some great choices. There鈥檚 a natural history classic written by the Welshman who shaped our understanding of evolution; we have a Sci聽Fi novel which takes us to the very end of time; and a travelogue which goes in search of an increasingly rare commodity: darkness.

Dr. Tim Cockerill, Senior Lecturer in Natural History at the University of South Wales chooses 鈥楾he Malay Archipelago鈥� by Alfred Russell Wallace (Pocket Penguins) ;

Dr. Emily Drabek-Maunder from Cardiff University鈥檚 School of Physics and Astronomy has selected 鈥�The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light鈥� by Paul Bogard (Fourth Estate);

Vic Grout, Professor of Computing at Glyndwr University turns to science fiction for his choice: 鈥楾he Dancers at the End of Time鈥� by Michael Moorcock (Gollancz)