Author:Tom Whipple
Are you fed up losing at family board game nights? Do you want to learn how to destroy the competition?
Get the inside tips from preposterously overqualified experts on how to win a range of common family games, board games and more.
* A mime artist tells you how to do the best charades
* A mathematician tells you how to win Connect 4
* A professional racing driver tells you how to take corners in Scalextric
* A Scrabble champion reveals his secrets
* A game theorist tells you what properties to buy in Monopoly in order to bankrupt and embarrass your competitors.
This is a must read for anyone who takes games too seriously and for bad losers everywhere.
“It sounds utterly brilliant”
—— Editor's Choice , The BooksellerThis book is fantastic!
—— Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2Tom Whipple’s little red book is the tome to tuck into your weekend bag if you know you’re going be Monopolised or Scrabbled
—— Harpers BaazarNovacene reads like undiluted Lovelock. From the start of his writing life - no matter how tortuous the narrative or complex the argument - Lovelock has written persuasively. ... if you want a sense of hyperintelligence in bipedal form, Novacene is a good place to start.
—— Tim Radford , NatureJonathan Safran Foer has laid down an urgent challenge with this book. Thought-provoking, humane and incisive, We Are the Weather confronts our personal entanglement in the climate crisis through the food on our plates. A necessary book about the way we eat and the enormous difference our daily choices can make.
—— Julian HoffmanSafran Foer's new approach, measured and moderate, gives me hope
—— ObserverIn a style rarely found in books about global catastrophe, [Foer] interweaves personal stories, bulleted factoids and a delicious serving of metaphor. The effect is dazzling.
—— The Washington PostEye-opening . . . In this follow-up to his influential Eating Animals, [Foer] brings both personality and passion to an issue that no one has figured out how to address in a way that inspires an adequate response.
—— The New York Times Book ReviewBeautiful, powerful writing that's made me rethink the way I eat.
—— Samin Nosrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid HeatFoer's message is both moving and painful, depressing and optimistic
—— Publisher's WeeklyFoer's new book urges the reader gently towards incremental adjustments - the idea being that if enough of us observe them, difference can be made
—— MonocleEnough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack ... The margins of my review copy of the book are scrawled with expressions of terror and despair, declining in articulacy as the pages proceed, until it's all just cartoon sad faces and swear words ... To read The Uninhabitable Earth is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism
—— Mark O'Connell , The GuardianThere is much to learn from this book. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them in vivid prose.
—— David George Haskell , The ObserverBrilliant ... At the heart of Wallace-Wells's book is a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet
—— The New York TimesNot since Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature" 30 years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms.
—— Fred Pearce , The Washington PostEveryone should stop what they're doing and read The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells. This is our future if we don't act now.
—— Johann Hari , TwitterWake up! Get educated - The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells is a great place to start.
—— Paris Lees , VogueA book that's by turns alarming, terrifying and just downright bleak . . . a sustained piece of informed polemic.
—— The Evening StandardA very accessible and compelling read . . . a much more nuanced and a much more hopeful vision than you might expect.
—— The Irish TimesI think everyone should probably right now read David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth, which tells the grim story with as much optimism as possible, and which gives all the facts.
—— Daniel Swift , The Spectator, Books of the YearWell-written, captivating, occasionally wry and utterly petrifying
—— i NewsIn his gripping new book ... Wallace-Wells shocks us out of complacency'
—— ProspectIf you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be [this] . . . What this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject you could be informing yourself about.
—— David Sexton , The Evening StandardExceptionally well researched and written. . . . This short, concise book pulls no punches.
—— Mitch Friedman, executive director, Conservation NorthwestYes, this book will scare you, but it will also prompt you to take action to ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped.
—— Stylist, ‘Your guide to 2019’s best non-fiction books’Most of us known the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only clear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt. This is a profound book, which simultaneously makes me terrified and hopeful about the future, full of regret and new will.
—— Jonathan Safran FoerHarrowing.
—— Jonathan Franzen , The New YorkerThe Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending armageddon.
—— Andrew SolomonJust finished The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells. Everyone, everywhere, should read it. Can't remember the last time a book had such an impact on me.
—— Rutger Bregman, author of 'Utopia for Realists' , TwitterOn [Alexandra] Ocasio-Cortez's office bookshelf, near a picture of her late father and a photo of her with a local Girl Scout troop, two books nestle together in uneasy union. One is the Federalist papers. The other is The Uninhabitable Earth.
—— Time magazine profile on Alexandra Ocasio-CortezIf there are people around to write history books in the future, they will look back at the @ExtinctionR protestors and think they were the sanest people of our time. Read The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells if you don't know why.
—— Johann Hari, TwitterIf we don't want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book.
—— Timothy Snyder, author of 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twenty-first Century'David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will much graver than most people realize, and he's right. The Uninhabitable Earth is a timely and provocative work.
—— Elizabeth Kolbert, author of 'The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History'Trigger warning: when scientists conclude that yesterday's worst-case scenario for global warming is probably unwarranted optimism, it's time to ask Scotty to beam you up. At least that was my reaction upon finishing Wallace-Wells' brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present.
—— Mike DavisA lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition.
—— William GibsonBrilliant at the futility of human action.
—— Sarah CromptonA masterpiece of operatic proportions … What Powers means to explore is a sense of how we become who we are, individually and collectively, and our responsibility to the planet and to ourselves … A magnificent achievement: a novel that is, by turns, both optimistic and fatalistic, idealistic without being naïve.
—— KirkusHis masterpiece.
—— HeraldYou will careen through this book. The prose is driven. You don’t really get to draw breath … The writing is steel-edged, laser-sharp when Richard Powers wants it to be. When he sets out to nail meaning, it’s done. There are sentences you return to and wonder at.
—— Irish TimesThis walk through the woods via words is a passionate paean to the natural world that prompts us to appreciate afresh our place on the planet.
—— i news[I]t’s huge, it’s exciting, it’s wondrous … This really deserves to be read.
—— BookmunchThe Overstory is a book you learn from.
—— SpectatorDazzlingly written… Among the best novels I’ve read this decade… Despite its deep-time perspective, it could hardly be more of-the-moment
—— Robert Macfarlane , GuardianA beautiful novel about humans reconnecting with nature in a fascinatingly, inventive world with colourful, rich characters, it will rekindle your love for nature
—— Asian VoiceAn intriguing, powerful book
—— Maddy Prior , Daily ExpressAbsolutely blown away by this epic, heartbreaking novel about us and trees
—— Emma DonoghueThis extraordinary novel transformed my view of nature. Never again will I pass great tree without offering a quiet but heartfelt incantation of thanks, gratitude and wonder
—— Hannah Rothschild , Waitrose WeekendA sweeping novel that skilfully intertwines many different stories of trees and people to create a paean to the hidden power and vital importance of the natural world
—— Country & Town HouseAbsorbing, thought-provoking and more than enough incentive to embrace your inner tree-hugger
—— Culture WhisperThe Overstory is filled with character and incident enough to engage anybody, but it's also filled with philosophy, science, poetry, and colour. It's a celebration of the world and humanity, but also tells of our coming doom. Perhaps above all it's a eulogy to trees. Eulogy is the right word because the novel celebrates the life, the beauty and wisdom of trees-but also their death. The novel also casts a cold-but loving-eye on humanity
—— Richard Smith , British Medical JournalThe Overstory has the mix of science and fiction that I so love; it widens my understanding and respect for the creatures who share this planet
—— KAREN JOY FOWLERStunning... It's been one of those rare books that has had a profound effect on me, and which has changed my perspective on life
—— Paul Ready , Yorkshire PostMind-boggling and visionary. The multi-stranded novel is a masterpiece in which science and poetry are deeply intertwined
—— Andrea Wulf, author of MAGNIFICENT REBELS , GuardianA compelling read is that is near impossible to put down
—— Adoption TodayThe Overstory is a prescient novel that urges us to take responsibility for our actions
—— Far OutA masterpiece of storytelling at its very best. Powers weaves together science, poetry, nature and humanity so beautifully that it makes my heart ache and my mind fly
—— Andrea Wulf , GuardianA wild and expansive novel, knitting together a glorious and diverse cast of characters, some of them human, some of them trees. I defy you not to be moved, and then angered about what we are doing to our planet and these glorious sentinels rooted upon it
—— Greg Wise , WeekMy novel of the year was Richard Powers' masterpiece, The Overstory... it's a magnificent read
—— Mark Connors , Northern Soul, *Books of the Year*The Overstory by Richard Powers is likely the most beautiful book ever written about people and trees
—— Andy Hunter , Spectator