Author: writer

Incandescent – Wigtown Book Festival – 4 October 2019

1.30PM
Anna Levin
Incandescent: We Need to Talk about Light McNeillie Tent | £6 Seen from space, our world is getting brighter. But is brighter better? Journalist Anna Levin reveals her fraught relationship with artificial lighting, probing its impact on nature, the built environment, and health. What, she asks, are the risks of messing with nature’s rhythms? [707]

Talking about light at Lancaster Waterstones

Join us Wednesday 25th September at 6.30pm for an evening with the lovely Anna Levin who will be talking about her book 'INCANDESCENT'.

In Incandescent, journalist Anna Levin reveals her own fraught relationship with changes in lighting, and she explores its real impact on nature, our built environment, health and psychological well-being. We need to talk about light, urgently. And ask the critical question: just how bright is our future?

Tickets are £2 redeemable off the price of the book on the evening.

https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-anna-levin/lancaster-king-street

Incandescent – We Need to Talk about Light

My new book Incandescent We Need to Talk about Light is published by Saraband on 19th September 2019.

“In Incandescent, journalist Anna Levin reveals her own fraught relationship with changes in lighting, and she explores its real impact on nature, our built environment, health and psychological well-being. We need to talk about light, urgently. And ask the critical question: just how bright is our future?”
https://saraband.net/sb-title/incandescent/

The Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017 Longlist

Thrilled to see my name – and my essay! – on the longlist for the Notting Hill Editions 2017 essay prize. My essay, entitled 'Incandescent – we need to talk about light' addresses my concerns about the banning of incandescent lightbulbs and the impact of the loss of incandescent light on human health and the wider environment.

http://www.nottinghilleditions.com/about/essay-prize-2017-longlist

Dawyck Botanic Garden

Description

With Fay Young

Dawyck Botanic Garden Guidebook

ISBN 978 1 906129 5 6, softback, 48pp.

Informative and fully illustrated, the Dawyck Botanic Garden Guidebook provides a wonderful accompaniment for any trip to RBGE's Border's woodland Garden and is also used as a thorough reference source for those unable to visit.

 Please contact pps@rbge.org.uk to order this title.

 

http://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/publications/publications-catalogue/guidebooks-leaflets-and-maps/garden-guidebooks

Benmore Botanic Garden

Description

With Fay Young

Benmore Botanic Garden Guidebook

SBN 978-1-906129-72-9, paperback, 48pp.

The definitive full-colour guide to Argyll's magnificent mountainside garden. An essential companion to your visit and the perfect keepsake.

Please contact pps@rbge.org.uk to order this title.

 

http://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/publications/publications-catalogue/guidebooks-leaflets-and-maps/garden-guidebooks

The Queen Mother’s Memorial Garden

Description

by Simon Crutchley

Enjoy this guide at home or during a tour of this spectacular garden at the Edinburgh site. The Souvenir Guide explores The Queen Mother's long association with Scotland and  explains the function of the garden, its features and its plantings. A clear map and foreword by HRH Prince of Wales are included. The Guide is illustrated in full colour throughout with photographs from The Castle of Mey Trust and RBGE's own collection.

http://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/publications/publications-catalogue/guidebooks-leaflets-and-maps/garden-guidebooks