The Water Book

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The unnamed protagonist of Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel, a young black photographer, often reflects on his artistic process: he is principally trying to compose images that “portray a rhythm”. Weaken spells from the standard spellbook are now 50% more effective when the tome of water is equipped.

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It is still trundling over the planet’s surface telling us that Mars once had water, from its old river beds and furrows, and that it still has water in “ice at the poles and vast glaciers at the bottoms of shadowed craters”. Other characters are left as blank as the landscape: no one is identified beyond “scientists”, or “the expedition leader”, leaving the penguins to add some colour and personality. RuneScape and RuneScape Old School are the trademarks of Jagex Limited and are used with the permission of Jagex.With her foot, she traces a line across your own, finally settling her lower limb between your calves. The central plot of Open Water, set in 2017-18, may at first glance seem familiar: two young people (in this instance, a female dancer and a male photographer) fall in love when perhaps they shouldn’t (the dancer has “romantic history” with a close friend of the photographer).

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As De Góis heads farther east on his travels, Wilson-Lee is able to open up a fabulous vista while demonstrating the challenges it represented to those Portuguese travellers who were convinced that their brand of Christianity was the right one. The surviving accounts agree that there were signs of violence, but conflict over whether he was burnt or strangled and whether he was at home or at an inn. One of the major puzzles of this contrary substance – the fact that hot water freezes faster than cold water in sub-zero conditions – was discovered by a Tanzanian high‑school student named Erasto B Mpemba, who “found that hot ice-cream mix froze faster than colder mix in a classroom experiment”.You don’t tell her that you had repeated the song ‘Brenda’, an ode to the artist’s grandma, so much that you knew when the bassline would begin to slide under the strum of guitar chords, when the trumpet would riff and reverb, when there was a break, a slight pause where the music fell loose …You don’t tell her that it was there, in the slight pauses, that you were able to breathe, not even realising you were holding in air, but you were.

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Spanning millennia and continents, a revealing history that “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity” (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host). It is a story of ideas and institutions; of tensions between individual enterprise and collective action; of human needs and planetary dynamics.There is science, but also Adélie penguins, ferocious katabatic winds and plenty of ice (the Antarctic is covered by 10,000tn tons of snow and ice). Nicholas Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, Columbia University.