Any Human Power

ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The Shadows of London

‘Any Human Power is a polemical thriller like no other, an absorbing manifesto to change the world. It constantly surprises. Manda Scott's characters play havoc with your emotions, her narrative keeps you turning the pages, and her ideas might just change your life.’

PAULA BRACKSTON, author of The Little Shop of Found Things

‘What an incredible book! Any Human Power will challenge what you thought you knew about life, death, and everything in between. Stunningly original and thought provoking.’

LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher novels

‘Instantly immersive and compelling, rich and strange, human and humane, and most of all inspiring ... an extraordinary story.’

TOBY PEASE, director 

‘A superbly gripping nail-biting race.’

ADAM HAMDY, author of The Other Side of Night

‘Manda Scott is an unmissable, visionary author and has created a compelling political thriller that inspires belief in the possibility of a better future. Born of dreams, Any Human Power is a dream read.’

OLIVER HARRIS, author of The Shame Archive

‘An astonishing novel, at once powerfully contemporary and mythopoeic. Of its many achievements, the greatest is giving a sense that there is a way forward from our current predicament: the creative gift of hope.’

LIZ JENSEN, author of Your Wild and Precious Life

‘Any Human Power is an extraordinary, ground-breaking, high-wire act of a novel, which vividly evokes not just why our world is at breaking-point, but how a single nation could be quickly and radically transformed in a way that scales up to encompass the globe. I wasn't just gripped all the way through, but moved, uplifted and energised by Scott’s wild, vast, brave and tangible vision of the possible. If you care about the future of life on Earth, this is the novel for you.’

FANTASY HIVE 

‘I loved the mix of fantasy and myth… A hugely entertaining read with compelling characters, elegant prose and a story where we really want to find out what happens.’

Prof. Emeritus RUPERT READ, author of Parents For A Future and Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project

‘I salute the central convictions running through this heartful novel: that truthfulness and authenticity may yet be the saviour of the world.’

DIANA FINCH, Managing Director of the Bristol Pound and author of Value Beyond Money

‘Any Human Power is a powerful story that operates on many levels, from the archetypal and allegorical, to the theoretical and practical. Manda’s writing style is both easy and beautiful, making a deep consideration of the horrors, complexities and potential ways forward arising from the poly-crisis accessible to a wide audience.’

ANTHONY DAY, host of the Sustainable Futures podcast

‘In this election year I hope it's discussed and read by as many people as possible. I hope it stimulates discussion, action, and helps to bring about change. It deserves to be a landmark.’

JULIA SHERBAKOV, host of Impact Journey podcast

‘I experienced this as a whirlwind of a story, completely immersive from the beginning, and it took me on a wild ride.’

NICOLA PEEL, solutionist & co-founder of the South East Climate Alliance 

‘So many people are overwhelmed by the state of the world and can't see any way forward. We urgently need maps just like this to show us that another world is possible and how we get there.’

NATHALIE NAHAI, author of Business As Usual

‘A clarion call for our times, this visionary book dreams into being a new mythology of interpersonal power, eco-societal agency and democratic governance.’

CHRIS SMAJE, social scientist, small-scale farmer and author of A Small Farm Future

‘In Any Human Power, Manda Scott uses her own supreme imaginative powers as a novelist to open windows into the flow of possibilities. She inspires us to find our own routes into that flow and do the work demanded of us.’

ROZIE APPS, editor of PERMACULTURE MAGAZINE

‘Hopeful, engaging, heartfelt, imaginative…’

ANGHARAD WYNNE, co-founder of The Animate Earth Collective

‘A brave book of immense potency: an audacity of imagination and a phenomenal depth of research woven around a break-neck storyline and characters that live and dream and glimmer. It’s a book that changes those who read it, in subtle but powerful ways.’