Two exciting events coming up this week for my novel #RedSmokingMirror:
Mr B's, Bath, on 19th July https://tinyurl.com/bdfynrtd
Stanfords, London, on 20th July https://tinyurl.com/2hrztpab
If you're in Bath or London, please come along!
Red Smoking Mirror with Nick Hunt - Mr B's Emporium
Join us as we welcome Nick Hunt back to Mr B’s to discuss his spectacular debut novel, Red Smoking Mirror. Nick has previously written several travel books, including Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, and most recently the Mr B’s favourite, Outlandish. Now he turns his hand to fiction with […]
With extreme heat raging in the south of Europe, here's my piece about hiking on Aletsch, the greatest glacier in the Alps – now going the way of all glaciers in this age of climate change. 'Last-chance tourism', or something else? For Guardian Travel
https://theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/10/i-walked-the-alps-largest-glacier-it-felt-like-last-chance-tourism-I walked the Alps’ largest glacier. It felt like ‘last-chance tourism’
A trek on the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps is dazzling, but also a stark example of the damage caused by global warming
Swift Press | Red Smoking Mirror
My debut novel RED SMOKING MIRROR will be published in July 2023.
https://swiftpress.com/book/red-smoking-mirror/Swift Press | Red Smoking Mirror
This time last week I was here, at Lithuania's Hill of Crosses, and now it all feels like a vaguely troubling dream.
Four days on Lithuania's Curonian Spit, overlooking Russian Kaliningrad: a 60-mile-long spit of sand whose giant wandering dunes swallowed 14 villages before reforestation held them back. An otherworldly place.
WALKING THE WOODS AND THE WATER spotted in a second-hand shop, and it gives me a very pleasing sense of being recycled. Much better a book is read twice than once.
Joyeux Noel from Mistral Man, a stock character from Provençal Nativity scenes, stoutly facing the icy blasts of winter with his hat held firmly on his head. (Also a last-minute Christmas present idea!) Be of good cheer, all.
Looking for a Christmas gift for the foodie in your family? LOSS SOUP contains Neanderthals, aurochs, Welsh lake monsters, senile pirates, failed conquistadors, and extinct animals floating in a revolting viscous gruel. Perfect!
https://dark-mountain.net/product/loss-soup-and-other-stories/
Loss Soup and Other Stories - Dark Mountain
Dark Mountain co-author Nick Hunt's debut collection of short fiction
Statements like this are why I wrote this story https://dark-mountain.net/green-bang/ about the financialisation of nature. Just the absolutely worst reason to value a tree.
"It was a warm autumn day, and the ecosystem service providers were buzzing in the natural capital..."
Green Bang - Dark Mountain
$54 trillion a year — Estimated upper value of the world’s natural capital and ecosystem...
