Laura Spinney
@lfspinney
Novelist, science journalist and author of PALE RIDER, a history of the Spanish flu https://t.co/RZ2NWImbpD [email protected]
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http://www.lauraspinney.com 21-07-2012 09:07:09
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Eric Klinenberg’s study of New York’s struggle with Covid in 2020 reveals a society riven by racism, social inequality and discontent.
🖊️ Laura Spinney
newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
Join historian and award-winning author Simon Schama as he introduces his new book, Foreign Bodies, an epic history of pandemics and global health, with Guardian science journalist Laura Spinney.
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Audio long read
History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
with a new introduction by author Laura Spinney
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The disrupted relationship between humans and nature has led to global health emergencies, from bird flu to Covid-19.
Join Simon Schama as he chats to Laura Spinney about how our treatment of the natural world will always define our destiny 👇
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Many congrats to #BGPrize2022 Baillie Gifford Prize winner Katherine Rundell, thank you for signing my book, super-fab speech from judge Laura Spinney, and look forward to reading about Donne, 'the greatest love poet in the history of the English language!'
We are so excited to announce the #BGPrize2022 winner. Congratulations to Katherine Rundell! Read more here: thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/news/katherine… #winner #nonfiction
Author Tracy Chevalier tells us what she found so interesting about Rudolf Vrba’s story, as told in Jonathan Freedland’s #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘The Escape Artist’. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3CQ6bzf John Murray Press
Head over to our Facebook page and click ‘going’ and share the award ceremony event for your chance to win a full set of the #BGPrize2022 shortlisted books: fb.me/e/2UCmbQjAf
#BGPrize2022 shortlisted author Anna Keay reads us an extract from her book ‘The Restless Republic’, which explores how the 11 years in which Britain was a republic, set the British Isles on a new course. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3DiYDX6
William Collins Books
Dr Helen Salisbury talks to us about what she loved the most about #PollyMorland ‘s #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘A Fortunate Woman’. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3DiSIRT
Journalist and author Oliver Bullough tells us why Sally Hayden #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’, is a book “you have to read”. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3TFHT1v 4th Estate Books
Next, Rory Stewart talks to us about what he found so engaging about Anna Keay’s #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘The Restless Republic’. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3DiYDX6
Learn more about the #BGPrize2022 shortlist with director of the prize Toby Mundy and #CarolineElkins , author of ‘Legacy of Violence’, who discusses how the British Empire used liberal rhetoric to justify repeated violence against its colonies: on.soundcloud.com/2gzog
Watch Sally Hayden read us an extract from her #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’, which details the unimaginable choices made by migrants. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3TFHT1v HarperCollinsUK 4th Estate Books
Discover the #BGPrize2022 shortlist with director of the prize Toby Mundy and Jonathan Freedland, author of ‘The Escape Artist’, which tells the story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped Auschwitz to warn the world about the horrors of the Holocaust: youtu.be/4_KeRVNQ1FI
Caroline Elkins reads an extract from her #BGPrize2022 shortlisted book ‘Legacy of Violence,’ and explores the role violence played in upholding the British Empire. Read more about the book here: bit.ly/3fuEvbj
#shortlist #nonfiction The Bodley Head Vintage Books