'Life Changing' was short-listed for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation, and was The Times Science Book of the Year. I genuinely haven't been this excited since I dressed my dog up in a dinosaur onesie and tried to smuggle him into the Natural History Museum. Read some of the reviews; in The Times here and Science here.
'Helen Pilcher takes on the unenviable task of describing how our species has been on a collision course, spanning roughly 300,000 years of history, with the rest of life on Earth. It shouldn't make for good reading but, mercifully, Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.'
GILLIAN BURKE, biologist and TV presenter.
'With warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent commentary on this, the age of post-natural history.
JULES HOWARD, naturalist, science writer and author of Death on Earth.
'Helen Pilcher takes on the unenviable task of describing how our species has been on a collision course, spanning roughly 300,000 years of history, with the rest of life on Earth. It shouldn't make for good reading but, mercifully, Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.'
GILLIAN BURKE, biologist and TV presenter.
'With warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent commentary on this, the age of post-natural history.
JULES HOWARD, naturalist, science writer and author of Death on Earth.
Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday life are often overlooked. In 'Small Inventions' I reveal the unexpected stories of 50 humble innovations – from the accidental soldering of two bits of metal that created the pacemaker, to the eighteenth-century sea captain whose ingenious invention paved the way for the filming of Star Wars – and celebrate the joy of the small yet mighty. Size isn't everything, after all.
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