“A fascinating read . . . our TalkSport and Talk BOOK OF THE WEEK!” —Extra Time with Paul Ross

“Look UP and find a whole world of joy.” —Anna Foster, BBC Radio Radio 4’s Today

“A book rich with light, love, and the best kind of astonishment.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

“Entertaining and unusual.” —Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs

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“Exhilarating.” —Saga Magazine 

“Look UP and find a whole world of joy.” —Anna Foster, BBC Radio Radio 4’s Today

“Entertaining and unusual. How delightful to find a book that spends time with condors, clouds, and eclipses!” —Tristan Gooley, author of The Hidden Seasons and The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs 

“Massively enjoyable, skillfully blending fascinating facts with vivid personal experiences. Whether you’re interested in finding out more about tornadoes, eclipses, or the wing loading of a butterfly, you’ll find Lucy Rogers is a magnificent storyteller. This is a treasure trove of accessible science you’ll want to share.” —Maggie Philbin, radio and television presenter 

“Above us unfolds a theatre of light and life—wings beating, storms gathering, the aurora dancing in the dark. In Up, Lucy Rogers invites us to look skyward, to rediscover the restless marvels overhead. Through kites and eclipses, bats and tempests, she journeys through the teeming heavens with a scientist’s eye and a poet’s heart—a lyrical meditation on awe, curiosity, and the fragile beauty above. A book to awaken wonder and lift the soul skyward.” —Roger Highfield, author, journalist, broadcaster, and science director at the Science Museum, London 

“With infectious enthusiasm and expert knowledge, Lucy Rogers takes us on a global journey while encouraging us to look up. From glowworms to satellites and clouds to eclipses, Lucy reveals incredible science and engineering in an engaging voice. I, for one, will no longer be looking down at the ground (or my phone) when I'm out!” —Roma Agrawal, engineer, author, and broadcaster 

“If you’ve ever looked up and wondered ‘what is that?’ then this book is for you! From bats to rainbows, satellites to the stars, Lucy Rogers has traveled the globe to answer all your questions and more! Uplifting and upbeat, Up is highly recommended for the curious mind.” —Catherine Heymans, professor and astronomer royal for Scotland, University of Edinburgh 

“Lucy Rogers’s book Up does something genuinely amazing: she changes your perspective on life by encouraging you to tilt your head backwards and look—really look—at what is going on above us. By doing so, we get to appreciate the exquisite beauty and complexity of things in the air around us, the sky above, and space beyond. In a wonderfully engaging style, she takes on explorations around and far beyond the earth—via single butterflies to murmurations of starlings, from rainbows to aurora, from space stations to the stars that guided past and will guide future journeys. I learned so much from this book.” —Tim Minshall, Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, and author of Your Life Is Manufactured 

“Up is a proper feast for mind and heart. Taking us on a tour of the things that exist above us―from the very small and local to the impossibly vast and remote―it shows us their marvelous complexities, beauties, and sublimities, and how their meanings get tangled with our own. Lucy Rogers is not only an exceptional science writer but a marvelous communicator of the wonder that drives curiosity about the world. Up is a book rich with light, love, and the best kind of astonishment.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 

“Vivid.” —Andrew Robinson, Nature