"I love global warming and I love you too!" GND Summer Book club

It's time to shirk off that waged labour, for at least a couple of days, and dive head first into a cool pool of climate fiction. On this first foray into a Summer Book Club our  Lucy Burke and friend of the pod Sam Knights , discuss their favourite climate reads of the summer and the political power that fantastic fiction can have on the world.  You'll find  all the books mentioned below and we hope you find at least a weekend to imagine what a better would could look like. links Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003) @ViragoBooks Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun (1962) Lynne Rienner Publishers, second edition,1998 (not currently in print but available second hand)Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (1990), @HarperCollins Richard Lanchester, The Wall (2019) @FaberBooks https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/the-wall-by-john-lanchester-read-the-first-chapter/ Imbola Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (2021), Penguin Random House @penguinrandom William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890) Penguin Classics @PenguinClassics Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation (2002), Canongate Canons @canongatebooks Richard Powers, The Overstory (2018) @VintagebooksKim Stanley Robinson Ministry For the Future (2020), Orbit, @orbitbooks check out our episode with Stanley here Neil Zink, The Wallcreeper (2014) @HarperCollinsThese are the books that we mentioned in passing:Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) Penguin Modern Classics @PenguinBooks Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement (2016), University of Chicago Press @UChicagoPress Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns (1976), Simon and Schuster  @simonschuster https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Wild-Thorns/Sahar-Khalifeh/9781623710798 Ian McKewan, Solar (2010), Vintage Classics @VintagebooksJenny Offill, Weather (2020), Granta Books @GrantaBooks Jules Verne, The Purchase of the North Pole (1889) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Isobel Wohl, Cold New Climate (2021), Weatherglass Books, @WeatherglassBksSupport the show