*New York Times bestseller*How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, King...

Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist, an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on 'sustainability' rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as th...

"A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New StatesmanIn the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers.In The Wake, a postapocalyptic...

A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide”Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake a...

We see the signs around us every day: the chain caf�s and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. For the first time, here is a book that makes the connection between these isolated, incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. As he travels around the country meeting farmers, fishermen an...

**'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of Books**One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth's only human survivors.But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of ref...

**Brought to you by Penguin.How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human**In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the n...

The stunning new novel from the prize-winning author of The Wake.'Come to a place like this . . . and you will understand soon enough that this world is a great animal, alive and breathing.'Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don't yet know; what he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something that he begins to see in the margins o...

The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The WakeBeast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don’t yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession.This short, shockin...

Als Paul Kingsnorth das erste Mal die Schriften von Ted Kaczynski liest – dem sogenannten Unabomber, der zwischen 1978 und 1995 die USA mit einer Serie von Briefbombenattentaten in Atem hielt –, ist er schockiert: weil er sich in seiner Verzweiflung über die Zerstörung unserer Umwelt in dem Terroristen wiedererkennt. Bei ihm selbst hat die Trauer und die Wut darüber, wie das techno-industrielle System nicht nur natürliche, sondern auch kulturelle Weltzusammenhänge auslöscht, eine Depressio...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHow a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be human**In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With masterful insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the...

Viele Jahre lang ist Paul Kingsnorth ein leidenschaftlicher Umweltschützer, er blockierte, er protestierte, er kämpfte. Doch dann beginnt die Umweltbewegung damit, sich auf die viel beschworene Nachhaltigkeit zu konzentrieren, statt wilde Orte um ihrer selbst willen zu verteidigen. Und als sich die natürlichen Bestände – Wälder, Flüsse, Meere – zusehends verschlechtern, wächst in ihm nicht nur die Trauer um diese schwindenden Gemeingüter, sondern auch eine Enttäuschung über die Bewegung, d...