Happy #pubday to THE VANISHING EARTH by James Crawford! A journey to the ravaged frontiers of extraction and the promising, often radical alternatives emerging just as we reach the point of exhausting the earth’s natural resources. On sale now! geni.us/vanishingearth

From the acclaimed author of The Edge of the Plain, a journey to the ravaged frontiers of extractive industry and the promising, often radical alternatives emerging just as we reach the point of exhau...

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It's our very own @liznugent.bsky.social on Take Four Books this week, talking to @jdcrawf.bsky.social at the Hay Festival open.spotify.com/episode/1GV5...

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Another wonderful listen with @jdcrawf.bsky.social discussing Elizabeth Strout’s new novel The Things We Never Say! So good I had to but it & read it very quickly. A true craftsperson! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The award-winning author on her newest book and its three key literary influences.

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Pre-order my new book THE VANISHING EARTH now in US & Canada! Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off all pre-orders through Friday, June 26th. Premium Members get an additional 10% off! geni.us/vanishingearth @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

This week on #TakeFourBooks on BBC Radio 4 I was talking to Maggie O’Farrell about new novel LAND, what it means to map a country, & her 3 influences, including Jospeh O’Connor and Marie Heaney - listen now! 🎧📚📻👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Had wonderfully wide-ranging chat with Douglas Stuart on BBC R4 - recorded @hayfestival.bsky.social - about new novel JOHN OF JOHN & the 3 works that influenced it: 3 novels of fathers and sons (and daughters!) by Marilynne Robinson, David Leavitt and John McGahern 🎧📚👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“A dizzying feat of reporting” - delighted with this early starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for my forthcoming book THE VANISHING EARTH from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social!

Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Historian and journalist Crawford takes readers on ‘a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction’ in this sweeping account of the toll the pursuit of endless economic growth has taken on the planet.

Historian and journalist Crawford takes readers on ‘a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers of extraction’ in this sweeping account of the toll the pursuit of endless economic growth has taken on the planet.

The Vanishing Earth: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Extraction by James Crawford

Historian and journalist Crawford (The Edge of the Plain) takes readers on “a journey to the literal and ideological frontiers o...

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Learned about this excellent book via BBC Radio 4’s Take Four Books hosted by the irrepressible @jdcrawf.bsky.social. Then saw Colm discuss it @hayfestival.bsky.social & just finished reading it! Loved the Catalan Girls. #IAmReading #JustRead #TakeFourBooks

This is a very powerful book. It is a difficult read at times but it is - in many ways - a must read for us all. Learned of it via the excellent Take Four Books hosted by the brilliant @jdcrawf.bsky.social

A great episode. ‘Audition’ has been on my bookshelf for a few months but has now jumped to the top of my TBR.

James Crawford@jdcrawf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Loved talking to @katiekitamura.bsky.social on BBCR4 about her latest @thebookerprizes.com & @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted novel AUDITION and 3 brilliant influences inc Rosemary's Baby, Javier Marias, Maupassant (& bonus influence David Lynch!) Listen now! 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Loved talking to @katiekitamura.bsky.social on BBCR4 about her latest @thebookerprizes.com & @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social shortlisted novel AUDITION and 3 brilliant influences inc Rosemary's Baby, Javier Marias, Maupassant (& bonus influence David Lynch!) Listen now! 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's only in the period of modernity, just as we began to lay waste to the planet, that non-human voices came to be silenced [in literature]. If non-human voices were included in a text, that text came to be regarded as children's literature. ~ Amitav Ghosh open.spotify.com/episode/3SmD...

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James Crawford@jdcrawf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On today's #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I talked with @amitav.bsky.social about his new novel GHOST EYE and his 3 influences: two ghost stories - one about a haunted palace, another about a haunted river - and Robert Macfarlane's luminous "Is A River Alive?" Listen now! 📚🎧👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On today's #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I talked with @amitav.bsky.social about his new novel GHOST EYE and his 3 influences: two ghost stories - one about a haunted palace, another about a haunted river - and Robert Macfarlane's luminous "Is A River Alive?" Listen now! 📚🎧👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📻 @jdcrawf.bsky.social talks to Solvej Balle about her 4th volume (there are spoilers if you haven't read 1-3) and the books that influenced her writing. open.spotify.com/episode/0N1z...

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Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interesting discussion on the Solvej Balle septet, or at least the four volumes so far translated into English, followed but recommendations for novels in translation, and translators to look out for #xl8 #booksky open.spotify.com/episode/0APz...

It may not be the 18th of November but it is 'Selter Day' on BBCR4’s TAKE FOUR BOOKS as I talk to SOLVEJ BALLE about her @faberbooks.bsky.social serial novel ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME & her 3 influences - come join us in the time loop! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On BBC Sounds: Jenni Fagan discusses her new novel, THE DELUSIONS, in which she takes readers to the afterlife – or, at least, to its waiting room. Her chosen influences are Nina Cassian’s poem “Temptation”, Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, & Jeanette Winterson’s WEIGHT 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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On her newest novel, The Delusions, and the three literary works that helped shape it.

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Listen now to my chat with Yann Martel on BBC R4 about new @canongate.co.uk novel SON OF NOBODY and his 3 influences: Homer's Iliad (as translated by Stephen Mitchell), Alice Oswald's poem Memorial & Edward Albee's classic 1960s play. From the Trojan War to marital war! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The 3 books I picked to talk about on #Take4Books today were Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream, Tove Jansson’s Summer Book and Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women, all of which had a big influence on #FewAndFarBetween

Brilliant guests on #TakeFourBooks in the last 2 weeks: Colm Toibin giving us THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN and then yesterday a fantastic chat with Susan Choi on FLASHLIGHT... Some fab influences too, from John McGahern's The Country Funeral, to Jenny Erpenbeck's Visitation... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Just watching Scotland from the Air and looked up @jdcrawf.bsky.social to discover he's on here and his new R4 series sounds great

James Crawford@jdcrawf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Listen now to my BBC Radio 4 chat with John Lanchester about new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut! 🎧📚👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listen now to my BBC Radio 4 chat with John Lanchester about new @faberbooks.bsky.social novel 'Look What You Made Me Do' and his three comic novel influences, Evelyn Waugh, Barbara Pym & Kurt Vonnegut! 🎧📚👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 25% off (My new book THE VANISHING EARTH coming out September ‘26!) www.waterstones.com/book/the-van...

🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨 Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP @scribepub.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

Listen now to my BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBCRadio4 I'm talking to Rob Doyle about his "mise en abyme" new novel CAMEO, and 3 influences - absolute crackers this week in the form of Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolano and Marguerite Yourcenar! Listen here 📚🎧👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Listen now to my BBC Radio4 #TakeFourBooks chat with Andrew Michael Hurley about new novel SALTWASH and three influences including Philip Larkin's 'Aubade', 'Free Will' by Sam Harris, and Shirley Jackson's chilling 'The Summer People' 🎧📚📻👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Christmas fantasy reading inspired by @jdcrawf.bsky.social Take Four Books episode with Katherine Rundell. Starting with the first in Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ series and then a re-read of the wonderful ‘Wizard of Earthsea’

Salman Rushdie was the latest guest on Take Four Books - talking to @jdcrawf.bsky.social about his new short story collection - The Eleventh Hour….catch up here…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #books