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If you’re looking for gift ideas which will fill minds as well as Christmas stockings, there's nowhere better than Science Café’s annual books programme.

Once again it’s 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’s a natural history classic written by the Welshman who shaped our understanding of evolution; we have a Sci 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 ‘The Malay Archipelago’ by Alfred Russell Wallace (Pocket Penguins) ;

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

Vic Grout, Professor of Computing at Glyndwr University turns to science fiction for his choice: ‘The Dancers at the End of Time’ by Michael Moorcock (Gollancz)