In her pivotal 2019 Book Festival event, former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson roused the audience with a defiant call to action on Climate Change: ‘First of all, make Climate Change personal in your life… the second step is get angry and get active…and the third step – and believe it or not I think this is the most important – we have to imagine this world that we want to hurry towards’.

Inspired by her powerful words, we’ve invited authors, activists, environmentalists and naturalists that have done exactly those things – whether talking directly about Climate Change; examining the beauty of our natural world; or meditating on the landscapes and environments we inhabit – they have all made it personal.