John Vaillant – författare

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

A Pulitzer Prize FinalistA National Book Award FinalistA Writers'' Trust Award FinalistShortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Prize

A Guardian Book of the YearA New York Times Book of the Year

''No book feels timelier . . . an adrenaline-soaked nightmare that is impossible to put down''Cal Flyn, The Times''Superb and terrifying''Katherine Rundell, Guardian''It reads like a thriller . . . utterly compelling''Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature''Astounding on every page''David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth''A towering achievement . . . extraordinary''Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

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.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHER

The Jaguar''s Children will be read for a long time to come. It is a major social novel''PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son''A large, ambitious novel''VANCOUVER SUN''Unforgettable . . . a bold, heartbreaking novel''TORONTO STAR''This is what novels can do - illuminate shadowed lives, enable us to contemplate our own depths of kindness, challenge our beliefs about fate''NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

PRAISE FOR JOHN VAILLANT''S FIRE WEATHER

**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**

''An unbelievable tale, expertly told'' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

''A superb book '' Daily Mail · ''Masterful . . . mesmerising, rangy and relentless'' Sunday Telegraph

A man-eating tiger is hunting villagers in the snowy forests of Far Eastern Russia.

A small team of men and their dogs must hunt the tiger in turn. As evidence mounts, it becomes clear that the tiger''s attacks aren''t random: it is seeking revenge. Injured, starving and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.

As he tracks the tiger''s deadly progress, John Vaillant draws an unforgettable portrait of a distant and brutal region, over 5,000 miles from Moscow. In the harsh depths of winter in Primorye, a gripping tale of man and nature unfolds.

''Exciting, memorable - and perfectly, impeccably right . . . a tale of astonishing power and vigour'' Simon Winchester, author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne

''Extraordinary . . . a brilliantly told tale of man and nature'' New York Review of Books