Verulam (readers' letters – November 2016)

The examples in the book will be useful to engineers looking to set up models in Abaqus to investigate the collapse behaviour of structures, believes Roger Davies, but less so to the more general reader.

With an enormous quantity of easily accessible information, this practical book deserves to be widely adopted for timber scheme designs, says Richard Harris, although a greater focus on timber's sensitivity to moisture movement would have been welcome.

This captivating book on the value of sketching – illustrated with a range of case histories – is a must-have for engineers at any level, concludes Paul Perry.