Fire Weather

A True Story from the Frontlines of a Burning World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

By: John Vaillant

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Paperback | 26 November 2024 | Edition Number 1

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432 Pages

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* A Pulitzer Prize Finalist * A National Book Award Finalist * A Writers' Trust Award Finalist *

*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize 2024*

'No book feels timelier than John Vaillant's Fire Weather . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down' Cal Flyn, The Times

In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes.

Through the gripping story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores our relationship with fire, an energy source that has been our partner in evolution for hundreds of millennia, shaping our culture and civilization. Now, in our age of intensifying climate change, its destructive power has been unleashed in ways previously unimaginable.

Fire Weather is an astounding account of this century's most intense urban fire, and an urgent examination of humanity's future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.

About the Author

John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His second, The Tiger, was an international bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages, and The Jaguar's Children, his first work of fiction, was a finalist for the Canadian Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Fire Weather, won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, and was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Industry Reviews

Superb and terrifying . . . it reads with pace and flair and a rich, furious clarity - Guardian

Page-turning and pacy - Daily Telegraph

All-consuming . . . urgent . . . shocking - Observer

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