May 2013
1 post
The New Yorker: “There is another world in our world.”
April 2013
1 post
NPR’s All Things Considered “An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism.”
March 2013
1 post
February 2013
1 post
Publishers Weekly ”Beautiful, remarkable, remarkably intelligent.”
January 2013
1 post
March 2012
5 posts
February 2012
2 posts
The British prime minister tells the BBC Somali service that jihadists in Somalia are a substantial security threat to the United Kingdom
Submergence is named book of the year in Monocle Magazine
January 2012
5 posts
Submergence is named book of the year in Word Magazine
Submergence is flagged as a “species survival” book by the Royal African Society
November 2011
6 posts
Submergence is named “coolly brilliant” book of the year in the Glasgow Herald
The British foreign secretary admits here that MI6 officers have died preventing terrorist attacks
A sample chapter of Submergence is available here
September 2011
13 posts
The Daily Telegraph →
WatchThe author with Ugandan troops on the frontline in Mogadishu, just before the al-Qaeda Shabab fighters withdrew from the city
August 2011
11 posts
The Independent
J.M. Ledgard quoted in The Independent Jul 29th, 2011
“The opening quotation in Life A Users Manual by Georges Perec is from Jules Verne: Look with all your eyes, look. I think that is what Perec gave me. In my first reading, ‘Life’ seemed celebratory and playful. When I read it again later in life, as a foreign correspondent, the world here and there cut to the bone, the book...
The Glasgow Herald
J.M. Ledgard quoted in The Glasgow Herald Jul 23rd, 2011
“The main risk is that, as a species, we are vulnerable. We are not as stable as think we are. Our evolutionary form is miraculous, but the prognosis is not that good. When you talk to the scientists, the microbiologists, almost none of them think we are going to make it. It is just that the mathematics is really against us.”
July 2011
8 posts
The Deep by Claire Nouvain →
This is among the most beautiful of books. It helped give form to the passages in the novel about the creatures in the abyss.
