Two Scribe titles longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation
We are delighted to share that two of our remarkably powerful books have been longlisted for the The Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation - Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs and The New Climate War by Michael E Mann.
The prize is supported by Frances Lincoln, publisher of the Wainwright Guides, the Wainwright Estate and in partnership with the National Trust. The £5000 prize fund will be shared and presented to the authors of the two winning books. The prize shortlist will be announced on August 4th and the winners’ announcement will be made live on September 7th. For more information about the prize and the other longlisted titles, please visit The Wainwright Prize website here.
Congratulations to Rebecca and Michael!
The New Climate War
One of The Observer’s ‘Thirty books to help us understand the world’
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we’ve been told we can save the planet. But are individuals really to blame for the climate crisis?
Seventy-one per cent of global emissions come from the same hundred companies, but fossil-fuel companies have taken no responsibility themselves. Instead, they have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change. The result has been disastrous for our planet.
In The…
Fathoms
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Shortlisted for the Stella Prize, Highly Commended in the Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, and a Sunday Independent Book of the Year.
How do whales experience environmental change? Has our connection to these animals been transformed by technology? What future awaits us, and them?
Fathoms blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore these questions. Giggs introduces us to whales so rare they have never been…
