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
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'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).
Day for Night: Landscapes of Walter Benjamin exhibition in central London
Image by Diego Ferrari
Day for Night: Landscapes of Walter Benjamin exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H
'The Kusi' essay longlisted for the 2018 CBC Non-Fiction Competition
Good news - 'The Kusi', an essay about the Kusi monsoon - wintertime on the Indian ocean coast of east Africa - has been longlisted for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 2018 Nonfiction Prize.
Finalist in the Arizona State University 2018 climate fiction contest
My short story 'The Most Beautiful Voyage in the World' has been shortlisted for the 2018 Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative Climate Fiction contest at Arizona State University.