Widely awarded and acclaimed author Chloe Hooper joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss anxiety and books in times of crisis. 

• Introduction: Anxiety and reading in a time of crisis.
• Chapter 1: Chloe Hooper on bushfires, pandemics and whether it will be fact or fiction that saves us.
• Chapter 2: Exploring non-fiction works about climate and the balance between optimism and reality through a discussion of The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future by David Wallace-Wells.
• Chapter 3: Diving deep into the environmental and gender inequality messages in Margaret Atwood’s works of dystopian fiction The Handmaid’s Tale and its 2019 sequel, The Testaments.
• Recommendations: Astrid recommends Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood to lovers of dystopian fiction, and How To Save the Whole Stinkin’ Planet by Lee Constable and Grimsdon by Deborah Abela for upper primary school readers. Astrid also recommends No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg, as well as The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson and Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar.

 

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