Climate change

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

‘Magnificent’ Guardian

‘Remarkable … A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben

‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben

‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben

‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben

‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

‘If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it’ Brian Eno

‘Clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous!’ Andrew Sean Greer

‘If you read only one book this year, then this must be it’ Sarah Winman

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.

Life is on the up.

Why do we lie?

How long do humans have left on Earth? Using cutting-edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined.

Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011.

Life is on the up.

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein