Notes from an Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World

In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready.They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it.Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet them.'A cross between Bill Bryson and David Foster Wallace... A fidgety, fretful but very funny book with which to while away the days in self-isolation' - Times

About the author

Mark O'Connell is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be a Machine, won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book, Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, and his work has appeared in theNew Yorker.

Product details

• Authors: Mark O'Connell, O'Connell Mark
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781783784073
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-407-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, popular science, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs