Ice Diaries at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival
I will be reading from and talking about Ice Diaries, the polar regions and climate change in the excellent company of Michael Bravo, author of North Pole.
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Cities of Light - Barcelona - a symposium on co-existence
I am co-organising an event, Cities of Light: Co-existence, a symposium and series of events in Barcelona. Diego Ferrari of Kingston University, Laura Cuch of Goldsmiths and I have programmed two and a half days of activities beginning on February 21st.
Everything Change: a climate fiction anthology edited by Kim Stanley Robinson
My short story 'The Most Beautiful Voyage in the World' was shortlisted for the Climate Futures Initiative's Everything Change 2018 short fiction contest and is published in an anthology of shortlisted stories along with the winning piece, edited by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Joint book launch in London for Ice Diaries and The North Pole
London independent bookshop Lutyens and Rubenstein is kindly hosting a joint launch for Michael Bravo's The North Pole and Ice Diaries on February 7th 20
'Ear of the Edgeland' - a podcast of Mark Cocker and I in conversation from Broadsound
Great Yarmouth-based Original Projects and the Norwich Sonic Arts Collective invited Mark Cocker and I to make Episode 1 of a series of podcasts on Edgelands, funded and supported by the Broads
Ice Diaries featured on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking
Fellow polar writer Michael Bravo and I were interviewed by Anne McElvoy for BBC Radio 3's nightly magazine of ideas and culture, Free Thinking, on December 13th.
Ice Diaries included in Best Nature Writing books of 2018 in The Guardian
I'm thrilled that my book Ice Diaries: an Antarctic Memoir (published in the UK in hardback on November 22nd) has been included in The Guardian's Best Books of 2018 annual pre-Christmas round-up.
Ice Diaries paperback published in the UK
My book about all things ice, based on a residency in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, is pubished in the UK in paperback (£15.99).