“A charming book…. remarkably far-reaching and even-handed”

Ed King, The Sunday Times

 

“This engaging history of our planet is ambitious, but Lloyd pulls it off”

Tony Clements, The Daily Telegraph

“This book should be on every child’s Christmas list....”

Bill Turnbull, BBC Breakfast

“The sort of book an enquiring mind will not want to put down…”

The School Librarian, Winter 2008

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BBC Breakfast, 14/10/08


Table talk about parallel universes - all on the couch with Bill and Sian at breakfast

 

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These are just some of the questions answered in

Christopher Lloyd’s unique volume, which covers 13.7 billion years in a single, sweeping narrative. Drawing on disciplines ranging from astrophysics to zoology, What on Earth Happened? presents the whole history of our planet, and shows how life, the universe and

 EVERYTHING are connected