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Climate change reading list

Non-fiction

  • Mark Maslin

    Global warming: a very short introduction
    Oxford University Press, 2004, £6.99, 0192840975
  • Mark Lynas

    High tide: news from a warming world
    Flamingo, 2004 hb £16.99 000713939X
    Perennial, 2005 pb £7.99 0007139403
  • John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin

    Ice age: how a change of climate made us human
    Penguin, 2003 pb £5.99 0141007303
  • Brian Fagan

    The long summer: how climate changed civilization
    Granta Books, 2005 pb £9.99 1862077517
  • Gabrielle Walker

    Snowball Earth
    Bloomsbury, 2003 hb £16.99 074756051X
    Bloomsbury, 2004 pb £8.99 0747568502
  • Mayer Hillman

    How to save the planet
    Penguin, 2004 pb £7.99 0141016922
  • Mark Hegarty

    The little book of living green
    Nightingale Press 2000 pb £2.49 1903222133
  • Frances Drake

    Global warming: the science of climate change
    Arnold, 2000 pb £19.99 0340653027
  • James Lovelock

    The ages of Gaia: a biography of our living Earth
    Oxford University Press, 2004 pb £8.99  0192862170
  • John Lynch

    Wild weather
    BBC, 2002 hb £20.00 0563534478
  • John Houghton

    Global warming: the complete briefing
    Cambridge University Press, 2004 pb £22.99 0521528747
  • Dinyar Godrej

    The No-nonsense guide to climate change (No-nonsense Guides) 
    Verso Books, 2001 pb  £7.00 1859843352
  • Bill McGuire

    Surviving Armageddon: solutions for a threatened planet
    Oxford University Press, June 2005 hb £16.99 0192805711
  • Bill McGuire

    A guide to the end of the world: everything you ever wanted to know
    Oxford University Press 2002 pb £8.99 0192804529 

Fiction

  • Julie Bertagna

    Exodus
    Macmillan, 2005 pb £4.99  0330420887
  • Ian McDonald

    River of Gods
    Simon and Schuster, 2004 pb £12.99 0743256700
  • Maggie Gee

    The ice people
    Metro Publishing, 1999 pb £6.99 186066153X
  • Maggie Gee

    The flood
    Saqi Books, 2005 pb £7.99 0863565123
  • J G Ballard

    The drought
    Flamingo, 2001 pb £4.99 0007115180
  • J G Ballard

    The drowned world
    Gollancz, 1999 pb £6.99 1857988833
  • Brian Aldiss

    The Helliconia trilogy
    Voyager, 1996 pb £14.99 0006482236
  • Adam Roberts

    The snow
    Gollancz, 2004 hb £17.99 057507180X
    Gollancz, 2004 pb £10.99 0575071818
  • John Burnside, Maurice Riordan (eds)

    Wild reckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson's ‘Silent Spring'
    Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2004 pb £7.50 1903080002

Children's non-fiction

  • Barbara Taylor

    How to save the planet
    Oxford University Press, 2000 pb  £3.99  0199107408
  • Alexander Gray

    The environment and you
    Heinemann 2001 pb £7.99 0431035482 
  • John Howson

    Young person's guide to the environment
    Souvenir Press, 1995 hb £12.99  0285632485  
  • Margaret Carruthers

    Land sea and air (The Young Oxford Library of Science)
    Oxford University Press, 2002  pb £7.99 0199109451 
  • Nigel Hawkes

    Climate crisis (Saving our world)
    Franklin Watts, 2003 £6.99 0749650966
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