This beautiful and practical book on the climate crisis is for people of all ages, packed with wonderful pictures, powerful stats, and sound advice.

If you ever felt that climate science was intimidating, this is the book for you. It's approachable, positive, upbeat, and adorably illustrated.

Too often, climate action is framed as being either a question of individual responsibility, or instead being entirely about systems-level interventions. The real truth is it's both/and-and Things You Can Do provides a plethora of engaging, accessible ways to get involved.

A feminist icon... Her success story is an inspiration for men and women both - showing that law matters

This book is not only essential reading for anyone who is in the Law or interested in the Law but it is also a fascinating personal story

A compelling account of a path-breaking and inspirational career by one of the most influential lawyers and judges of our times

Brenda Hale's story is extraordinary. She has been a pioneer as a woman... Spider woman and agent of change

Lady Hale takes us on the journey from 'girly swot' to 'Spider Woman' and along the way teaches us about the importance of the rule of law and protecting human rights... with humanity, humour and deep insight

This is an extraordinary and essential journey through the law by the most inspiring of figures

Fluently written... Her accounts of her more groundbreaking cases are fascinating... [Spider Woman is] quietly thrilling

Eye-opening... I would highly recommend the work to law students, the newly qualified and those with a sociolegal interest in the treatment of women within the law and the profession

A wonderful story... A wonderful read. A wonderful woman

A fascinating memoir weaving together personal and professional reflections

Baroness Hale's autobiography, Spider Woman, is a reminder of the huge but incomplete progress made by women in public life over the past 60 years... The willingness to talk truth to power that she has shown is needed now more than ever

[A] compelling autobiography... Hale reveals more than one might expect

Lady Hale... is a trailblazer for social reform. Her sharp intelligence and fierce work ethic are striking... Reading her autobiography makes one wish to know her as a person... She appears so very admirable for being oddly both self-effacing and feisty

[Wagner's] rare learning is skilfully deployed in this book

A brilliant and necessary book about the legal mechanism and human rights hangover of lockdown

Interesting and important ... Wagner is a fierce and effective critic

Anyone with an interest in the maintenance of good governance in a time of emergency will find much to ponder

Here, barrister Adam Wagner's emphasis is on the drastic impact lockdown had on our personal liberty and I hope some of his conclusion will be considered by government in the awful event of another such crisis occurring

'A pithy survey and review for non-lawyers of the two-year period when - but for the brief hiatus coming out of the first lockdown - virtually every aspect of the public's behaviour was indeed the subject of the criminal law ... Emergency State is a stress test for liberal democracy and human rights'

An informative and important opening step towards what must become a global debate as to how th eworld should respond to future pandemics of the internet age

A brilliant analysis... Emergency State is a wake-up call that reaches far beyond Covid. It identifies the toxic mix of factors that are eroding liberty in Britain as we speak

A brillliant analysis of how Covid was used to erode civil liberaties and sideline Parliament ... Emergency State is a wake-up call that reaches far beyond Covid. It identifies the toxic mix of factors that are eroding liberty in Britain as we speak.

An excellent detective novel. The opening scene is superb, and sets up the story beautifully. Gripping, multi-layered and fresh. Terrifc