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Let Live; A bike ride, climate change and the CIA

Climate Change is No Fiction ......  but by putting the issue into a story, a novel can reveal its human cost, and do so in an interesting way.
 

This new book by John Madeley will be launched at the World Shop in Reading on October 17th.

More book signing dates and venues are shown on his website.

Pre-publication, signed copies are available from John, email him for details.

PRESS RELEASE from Longstone Books, London

Climate change has become one of the most discussed issues of our time. Yet novels about it are rare.

John Madeley’s new book “Let Live” is a novel about climate change and more - it deals with effects of the change on people affected by it.
And it looks at powerful interests that don’t want people to know who is causing it.

For as severe drought in Africa led to famine this year, what lies behind it?

Famine makes the news. It forces people to leave their homes. “Let Live” shows how climate change is systematically displacing people who never make the news. Told through the eyes of an environmental
journalist on a bike, “Let Live” is a powerful story that draws on John Madeley’s considerable experience of the issues and the countries that feature in the book.

Sub-titled “A bike ride, climate change and the CIA” it tells of the damaging impact of the changes on people’s lives.

“People in Africa have told me that their climate is changing and making life harsher”, says John Madeley.

Cycling through West and East Africa, David Fulshaw meets people who have been forced from their homes because of the climate change that Western countries are largely causing. He writes critical articles about the West’s failure to curb carbon emissions, and is especially damning of United States policy. The US, he points out, is invading the sovereignty of other countries.

The man on a bike’s articles are strong enough to attract the attention of the CIA who decide that he cannot be allowed to besmirch the name of the US. A plot is hatched to remove him. Drama and pathos combine with wit and humour to make this a powerful novel for our time. A novel can reveal truth in a profound way. Let Live is one such novel.

Set in 2007, in the dying stages of the George W Bush  presidency, the book is a strong challenge to Western government policies on climate change.

Let Live will be launched on October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It is published by Longstone Books. ISBN: 078-0-9568344-1-6; 240 pages, price £8.99.

“Entertaining, sharp, penetrating, an incisive  account of the damage that climate change is  doing to the poor. A searing indictment of the  policies of Western country governments.  Read it....and demand
action” - Caroline Lucas MP