Bonk, English edition

Mary Roach is also the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Salon, Wired, GQ, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California.

* In this terrifically witty, hugely engaging study of the way we love, Mary Roach does meet some real oddballs, and on almost every page she tells you something to make you gasp aloud or snort with laughter -- Toby Clements Telegraph 20080503 * Roach certainly gets full marks for unflinching commitment to the job in hand ... Bonk contains everything you ever wanted to know about the science of sex but were too afraid to ask. -- Pd Smith Saturday Guardian Review 20080524 * Roach puts her quick wit to good service in this entertaining romp through sex research. Her unshockability is contagious, and ultimately reassuring. -- Gail Vines Independent 20080613 * When Mary Roach is seized by a subject, there is no stopping her: she is full-on, hands-on, and her lab coat is unbuttoned. -- Iain Finlayson The Times 20080517 * Eye-opening ... compelling stuff. -- Tom Boncza Tomaszewski Independent On Sunday 20080615 * A bold, tenacious and insatiable reporter, Roach ... could make an earthworm evisceration riveting and a hemispherectomy seem downright jolly. Scotsman 20080531 * Bonkers, but brilliant. Easy Living * The pithiest, wittiest writer on the subject since Woody Allen Saga * Hair-raising in parts, hilarious in others. -- Katie Law Evening Standard 20090507 * Roach marries enthusiasm and curiosity with unflagging humour while she intrepidly braves the "lurching tango of acadame and popular culture", rising to a passionate and playful, if not wholly penetrating, climax. -- Anita Sethi Independent on Sunday 20090531