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Tag: Climate change

Review: Deep Water by James Bradley

How do you tell a story as big as the ocean?

Australian, Climate change, History, Marine science, nature, Nonfiction, Oceans

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)

Where the river goes savage.

Brazil, Climate change, Environment, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Signs And Wonders by Delia Falconer

Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.

Australian, Climate change, Essays, Extinction, nature writing, Nonfiction

Review: Desire by Jessie Cole

A delicate study of needs and desires.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh

A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.

Climate change, Colonialism, Environment, History, India, Indonesia, Nonfiction

Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab

An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Rural

Review: Under A White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

Climate change, Environment, Extinction, nature, Nonfiction

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Classics, Climate change, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, speculative fiction

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

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