Highlights of the Season 10


Non-Fictio Highlights


Titles not to miss this season


Current Affairs


Climate change and its geopolitical and human consequences, as well as what it means to be a refugee and the related dangers, are the dominant themes in my spring/ summer top 10, says Caroline Sanderson


Ece Temelkuran Nation of Strangers Canongate Books, 12 February, hb, £18.99, 9781837262021


Written in response to what she calls “these unhoming times”, this powerful, clear-sighted and consoling book by Turkish writer Temelkuran - who was forced to leave her homeland in 2016 - is essential reading for this month, this year, this era. It consists of a series of letters addressed both to those already physically displaced – as is their author – and also to anyone starting to entertain the scary possibility of feeling politically, morally and spiritually homeless in a place they have always called home. That home, asserts Temelkuran, will in future, depend on the community we find with one another.


Conservation & Environment


Conservation & Environment


Arthur Snell Elemental: How We Will Live on a Warming Planet


Wildfire, 12 March, hb, £25, 9781035412945


Neil Shea Frostlines Picador, 12 February, hb, £20, 9781529084146


This powerful, clear-sighted and consoling book is essential reading for this month, this year, this era


08 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction


“What can it mean, for all of us, if the north ceases to be cold”? National Geographic writer Shea has been reporting from the Arctic for 20 years, yet this magical debut book was sparked not by an assignment but by an otherworldy encounter with a family of wolves on Ellesmere Island in northern Canada and with one white wolf in particular that stared him down. From dwindling herds of caribou to rising tensions along the border between Norway and Russia, it is a stunning portrait of a transforming region of the world everyone down South must urgently wake up to.


A former British diplomat, and now host of the Doomsday Watch podcast, Snell has more than three decades’ experience in conflict zones and fragile states. Which makes him perfectly placed to write this eye-opening account of the geopolitics of climate change and how the consequences of our warming planet intersect with global conflicts and economic crisis. Framing the book through the four ancient elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, he travels from the Sahel region of Africa to the Arctic Circle, blending reportage with analysis and interviews to reveal an increasingly turbulent future.


Current Affairs


Dominic Gregory Lifeboat at the End of the World


William Collins, 26 March, hb, £18.99, 9780008736781


After moving to Dungeness in Kent, Gregory became a volunteer at his local RNLI lifeboat station. It is the starting point for this quietly staggering debut memoir of being part of a volunteer lifeboat crew. Gregory takes us on board with him, pitching us into the heart-in-mouth experience of launching a lifeboat on a stormy coal-black night to rescue those in distress. In recent times they have included scores of desperate people, trying to reach our shores in death trap dinghies. The searing passages where Gregory describes responding to such mayday calls brought home the horror of the so-called “small boats crisis” like nothing else I have read.


An eye-opening account of the geopolitics of climate change


Gregory pitches us into the heart-in-mouth experience of launching a lifeboat on a stormy coal- black night


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