Backroom Boys

ORDER NONESUCH, THE NEW NOVEL FROM FRANCIS SPUFFORD, NOW A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. Backroom Boys is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebrat...