Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Product Description ‘The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch… At least you’ll die laughing’Sunday TelegraphVeteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two Mark O'Connell meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE'Like an even more deadpan Louis Theroux... essential reading’Mark WatsonThe apocalypse is nothing new, but of late Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.'Extraordinarily good – insightful, affecting, funny, and appropriately terrifying. The perfect handbook for the end times’Sally Rooney‘With that title, I half-dreaded what I’d find, but – a hundred pages in – I’m rightly anxious but laughing’Roddy Doyle‘Fretful, wise and funny… O’Connell is doing good work in difficult times. He offers us hope’Daily Telegraph Review 'Like an even more deadpan Louis Theroux, O'Connell ventures into the territory of extremists and reports back with wit, courage and a sort of calmly appalled curiosity... Essential reading' Mark Watson'Disturbingly relevant... this is, ultimately, surprisingly, a hopeful book' Sunday Times'One hell of a funny book... A must-read' Irish Independent'A wryly amusing tour of the end of the world' Financial Times'Anyone with open eyes lives today bound by apocalyptic fears for the future and the maddening sameness that defines the present day. Notes from an Apocalypse is a penetrating investigation into that new uncanny' David Wallace Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth'O'Connell shows the... same pinpoint accuracy with a well-timed joke as Geoff Dyer... If we are all heading down the long slide, at least with O’Connell to keep us company, we’ll be laughing – and screaming – all the way' --Irish Times About the Author Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine (Granta 2017), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for the Guardian, Slate, the New York Times and The Millions.