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What stayed with me most was how seriously the book treated climate change as a problem of science, economics, politics, and human behavior all at once. It made me think about not just what might happen, but how institutions and people might actually respond. I also appreciated how much I learned along the way. It was ambitious, thought-provoking, and grounded enough to feel uncomfortably plausible.
“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
I had just been reading and thinking about medieval bestiaries when I came across The Golden Mole. If there ever was a modern day equivalent of a bestiary, this would be it. The author uses her engaging writing style to introduce some of the most intriguing animals, like the narwhal and the pangolin, but I also learned some new facts about animals I thought I knew (such as that elephants are afraid of bees), and left with renewed wonder about the world.
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.
'Rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' Observer 'Exquisite and timely.' Maggie O'Farrell
** Shortlisted for the Waterstones and Foyles Book of the Year ** ** Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing **
In The Golden Mole, Katherine Rundell, the award-winning author of Super-Infinite and Impossible Creatures, takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's strangest and most awe-inspiring animals, including pangolins, wombats, lemurs and seahorses. But each of these animals is endangered. And so,…
