Can anyone recommend a good book on astronomy?

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

I am fascinated by the stars - if only I could see them more often behind the clouds, the haze and the street lighting. I have made several attempts to read books on astronomy since I was a child, but because I'm not remotely science-oriented, I find them hard to read. So if anyone knows any good, accessible, interesting astronomy books that don't blind the reader with science, I'd love to know about it.

Thanks.

[Darkstar]

Probably anything by Heather Coupar - she's pretty accessible. Depending on what you want to do, I think this is one case where the web is better - the Hubble space telescope website and the Nasa site are both excellent, and I've been keeping an eye on the Cassini-Huygens site since the probe reached Saturn.

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Belated thanks for that, Darkstar.

Those pictures in the papers yesterday of Titan from the Huygens were incredible. I assume you studied them carefully. It looked like it could have been somewhere on Earth.

What I couldn't get my head round was that the pictures took just over an hour to reach Earth, at the speed of light. And that the batteries used by the Huygens probe have less power than a pocket torch.

Odd to think that Titan is bigger than both Mercury and Pluto - seems unfair not to call it (and Jupiter's moon Gannymede) a planet, although I think I understand why they are not, as they are controlled by the pull of their respective planets.