"This story, told in the first person, starts with a child's interest in the night sky. A telescope begins a lifetime's interest in science. The narrator goes up to King's College, London to study. As a fellow at Cambridge he embarks on love affairs and searches for love at the same time as career success"

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion in this, C. P. Snow's first novel.

The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot's heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams. Concerns fall from him leaving only ironic tolerance. His son Charles takes up his father's burdens and like his father, he is involved in the struggles of class and wealth, but he challenges the 'Establishment', risking his future in political activities.

"In the eighth in the 'Strangers and Brothers' series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for 'The Masters'."--Goodreads

Homecomings is the seventh book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. The events concern the personal life of narrator Lewis Eliot. Following his wife's death, Eliot begins seeing Margaret. Her subsequent, and unsuccessful, marriage to another man leads to a difficult affair.

A personal account of the people, ideas, and politics of particle physics in its first 50 years. Includes many photographs of Einstein, Rutherford, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, and other scientists.

Time of Hope is the third in the Strangers and Brothers series and tells the story of Lewis Eliot's early life in an English provincial town. As a child he is faced with his father's bankruptcy. As a young man, he finds his career at the legal Bar hindered by a neurotic wife. Separation from her is impossible however because he is absorbed with a total obsession and passionate love. The story goes up to the summer of 1933, when Eliot is age 27.

Rutherford -- G.H. Hardy -- H.G. Wells -- Einstein -- Lloyd George -- Winston Churchill -- Robert Frost -- Dag Hammarskjold -- Stalin.