Six Minutes to Winter

‘Gripping, terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed.’ * George Monbiot *
Staggering, necessary … Six Minutes to Winter is Lynas’s way of smashing the alarm button … Lynas closes Six Minutes to Winter on this resonant ceremony — so right in its moral soundness and so neat in its poetic symmetry that it made me weep. * Washington Post *
‘The world is shadowed by the risk of nuclear winter, but we tell ourselves it’s already spring and the terrifying prospect has passed. It hasn’t. Urgent, gripping, and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call.’ * David Wallace-Wells *
‘A powerful and insightful reminder of the immense responsibilities that come with modern technology. Although many have forgotten about nuclear weapons, we shouldn’t’ * Charles Oppenheimer *
‘Lynas’ fearsome yet humane clarion call should trigger a new era of nuclear disarmament. This should be the opening read of the Heads of Nuclear States book club. Pulverizing physics react with Mark Lynas’ poetic soul to deliver a book of unmatched power.’ * Tom Heap *
Six Minutes to Winter offers morbidly compelling descriptions of exactly what it would be like if the Eastern seaboard were hit by a full-on nuclear attack and guess what: it’s not great. * Literary Hub *
‘An unflinching look into the most terrifying threat facing humanity. Everyone needs to know the story Lynas is telling’. * Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland *
‘Of no surprise to anyone who has read his previous books, Mark Lynas gives a rigorous but understandable overview of one of humanity’s biggest threats. Before we can stop nuclear war we need to wake up to the reality of what could happen. Mark Lynas shows us how. Ignore it at your own peril.’ * Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World *
‘Moving seamlessly between vivid narrative and sober-minded explanation, Lynas delivers a powerful warning of the continued threat of nuclear disaster. If any book can puncture our passivity towards one of the greatest threats to humanity, it is Six Minutes to Winter.’ * Yascha Mounk *

Mark Lynas is the author of five major works of popular science; his climate book Six Degrees won the 2008 Royal Society prize and was translated into 22 languages. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post, and appeared in the films Pandora’s Promise and The Island President. He has co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers on climate change, misinformation, GMOs and vaccines, and is policy lead at the worldwide pro-science environmental campaign network WePlanet.

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