Books by Claire Cameron
“For some of the book you are in the company of a Neanderthal community 40,000 years ago, and for the other part of the narrative you are with an archaeologist excavating a Neanderthal site today. It’s a split timeline and there are some conceptual and emotional links between those two timelines. For me, the archaeologist story is interesting in itself, but it’s the writing about the Neanderthals that I think is spectacular. I think it’s fabulous.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Claire Cameron were recommended
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1
The Inheritors
by William Golding, with a foreword by Ben Okri -
2
The Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean Auel -
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The Last Neanderthal
by Claire Cameron -
4
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
by Ludovic Slimak and translated by David Watson -
5
The Seventh Son
by Sebastian Faulks
Five Books Imagining Neanderthals, recommended by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Five Books Imagining Neanderthals, recommended by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
All archaeologists have to do some imagining because the data they work with is so partial and fragmentary, says Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. She picks five books that help bring to life our closest relations, from a historical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning writer to a work of sci-fi about a hybrid Neanderthal child.
