Today's Featured Bookshop is ...

 

Spotted in the Old Professor Bookshop, Belfast, Maine, by an Anonymous Well-Wisher.  If you've seen a copy of A  (Very) Short History of Life on Earth shelved somewhere for sale, please do drop me a line with a photo and I shall feature it here.

Picador Paperback out 15 September

 

Thrilled to announce that the paperback edition of A (Very) Short History will be out from Picador on 15 September. 'That's all the Christmas presents sorted', commented Mrs K. P. of Jersey, on reading this announcement.

With Firebreathin' Rob

 Here I am with Firebreathin' Rob. He brought his own fire extinguisher. 

Future Fossils

Here I am on Future Fossils with Michael Garfield. This is a long and somewhat psychedelic episode taking in A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, fossils, music, science fiction, evolutionary dynamics, literature, fossils, parenting, and fossils. It was fun. Bring sandwiches.

Your Mother was a Vetulicolian ...

... and your Father smelled of Elderberries! Yep, that's me on the Paleo Nerds Podcast.

A History of Life in Five Pithy Minutes

 

Now, here's something a bit special. I wrote and narrated a Very (Very) Short History of Life on Earth. Artist Ray Troll added pictures and Patrick Troll put it to music. I was thrilled when Ray asked me to write this, and if you enjoy it half as much me, I'll enjoy it twice as much as

you.

Portuguese Edition Available for Pre-Order

I'm thrilled to announce that the Portuguese edition of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth will be out in April and you can order it now.