Books to look forward to in 2021
By Earthbound Books
By Earthbound Books
Books I'm looking forward to this year. Get your pre-orders in if you're so inclined...
How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue
£14.99 £13.94Mbue, from Cameroon, has set her second novel in a fictional African village at risk from an American oil company.
Home in the World: A Memoir
FBA Sen Amartya
£25.00 £23.25Amartya Sen, the Nobel prize winning Indian economist, tells his own story.
Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
£16.98 £15.79The idea of the 'mother tree', identified by Simard, is one of the most radical recent discoveries in biology.
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
Kehinde Andrews
£20.00 £18.60A scathing exploration of how slavery and empire still shape global politics, from a pioneer of Black Studies in Britain.
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Mariana Mazzucato
£20.00 £18.60The influential economist turns her attention to Covid-19 recovery.
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Emma Dabiri
£7.99 £7.43A book full of practical advice from the respected race commentator.
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
Katrine Marcal
£16.98 £15.79A feminist take on innovation from the highly readable Swedish economist.
Crowfall
Vashti Hardy
£6.99 £6.50One for the kids - an adventure story with an ecological heart from Vashti Hardy.
Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
£12.99 £12.08A debut collection of short stories from Te-Ping Chen, best known as a writer for the Wall Street Journal.
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
Barnabas Calder
£20.00 £18.60Imaginatively retells the history of architecture from the point of view of energy use.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates
£20.00 £18.60Like the Pope, you have to pay attention when the big names talk about climate change.
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
£14.99 £13.94A novel weaving together faith and hope, race and migration, from the Ghanaian-American author.
135 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kostas Stasinopoulos
£7.00 £6.51What has art contributed to the climate change debate? A compendium of ideas.
Into the Volcano
Jess Butterworth
£6.99 £6.50Jess Butterworth raises environmental questions through children's adventure books about real places and situations.
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the World
Simon Winchester
£25.00 £23.25A big ideas book about land, concepts of ownership, and how they shaped human history.