Book presentation by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton in discussion with Liz Jensen. The world is exceeding the 1.5°C global warming limit, but what happens when these boundaries – set by the Paris Agreement – have been crossed? In the overshoot era, industries and states turn to new technologies that supposedly block sunlight and remove […]
India Amarteifio joins Ruth Madeley in new BBC drama The Rapture This thriller brings Liz Jensen’s compelling novel to life with a truly talented cast led by the brilliant Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio. The Rapture features two complicated and captivating characters, blended with a story of climate change, to create a gripping narrative and […]
Four years ago, I got the phone call that every parent dreads. Without warning, my healthy 25-year-old son Raphaël – a wildlife biologist and ecological activist – had collapsed and died. The trauma catapulted me into a place of almost hallucinatory madness: a territory so tormenting, debilitating, and bleak that I couldn’t imagine how I’d […]
As a young mother, I was haunted by the terror that one day a child of mine would die. It took root after my first son was born, and by the time I was pregnant with my second, it was unbearable. Superstitiously terrified told that if I told anyone, it might come true, I kept […]
It’s the end of the 20th century and my elderly father, who is a violin-maker, has built a microcosmic world. The ark is a floating animal sanctuary, a larder, a breeding-ground, a time-capsule, a social science experiment, a panic-room – and a toybox. It’s a gift for my son , who is three. It has […]
I’m in an airport bar in Houston, Texas, and I’m falling apart. Three hours ago I was in a rented apartment researching a story I was working on. But now, suddenly, unthinkably, I’m on my way to South Africa, and I need a drink, urgently. When the barman hands me my glass of Shiraz I […]
On April the 10th Your Wild and Precious Life (Dit Vilde og Dyrebare Liv) is released in Denmark.
Your Wild and Precious Life is now out on paperback in the UK. You can read more here.
At the top of the list of impossible things I wanted in 2020, after my son Raphaël’s sudden death, was for him to reappear, alive. He’d tell us it was all a misunderstanding. The paramedics had managed to revive him after all, and he was going to continue the life as a son, a brother, […]
