A Brief History of Climate Folly by Tim Flannery

A Brief History of Climate Folly by Tim FlanneryAn outrageous history of dreamers and schemers who wanted to change the climate, from one of Australia's most recognised names in nature writing. What to do about the climate? If emissions reduction is too hard and too slow, maybe science can engineer a solution? It turns out this line of thinking is as old as humanity. From shamanism to cloud seeding to Cold War plans to nuke the Arctic ice cap, humans have been trying or claiming to influence the

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING

Its message is one of defiance and renewal - that victims have no reason to feel ashamed

I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in

in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo

DH Lawrence

'but I live completely in the present now

this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love and abandonment

These drawings sat in silence for eighty years- first in the Berndts' home and then at the museum

A world-weary subeditor with a bookish sensibility and a painful past

They travel on together

and the forthcoming The Drowned Woods

the eastern states have become the world' s newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda