writer about nature, climate, landscape, people and place, and his books –– which include Underland (2019), a book-length prose-poem Ness (2018), Landmarks (2015), The Old Ways (2012) and Mountains of the Mind (2003) –– have been translated into more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been widely adapted for music, film, television, radio and theatre.
Macfarlane's new book, Is a River Alive?, is his most personal and political work to date.
At the Waterstones blog the author tagged "five books that present the complexity and importance of rivers through both fiction and non-fiction." One title on the list:
There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif ShafakRead about another entry on the list.
In Shafak’s beautiful, sweeping novel, three river-stories flow and braid with one another across cultures, landscapes and centuries –– from ancient Mesopotamia to Victorian London and modern Turkey. The Thames and the Tigris are at this book’s heart, and the third great current is the Epic of Gilgamesh itself, a story powerful enough to carry readers and characters onwards, and to set history itself aswirl. This hugely popular novel has already found its way into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers: water, connection and compassion are its keynotes.
--Marshal Zeringue
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