The Last Man Author:Mary Shelley and Margery Kempe

and Margery Kempe

The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets Midsomer Murders by way of Reverend Richard Coles and Richard Osman

But beneath the cheery façade

and oozing with romance" Lauren Kate

recommended for ages 5-8 and Junior Fiction

The Last Man Author:Mary Shelley and Margery KempeMary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction Written while Mary Shelley was in a self imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, The Last Man (1826) is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late