Books

Alta Types

There's nothing more compelling and more provocative than the literature of today's California and the West. The 28 books in this special section address topics like immigration, race and gender - as well as skateboards, drugs and the wonders of nature.

More information at altaonline.com…

Written: Tuesday February 4th, 4:41pm 2020

• At Cliff House
• A Peck of Gold
• Made in California
• The Power of Voice
• Miranda July
• Luis J. Rodriguez
• Rishi Reddi
• Robert Hass
• Books
• Rebecca Solnit
• Farewell to Starbucks' green straws
• Creating personalised drugs
• From the editor - Daniel Franklin
• Testing times ahead for the booming passports trade
• What sci-fi can tell us about the future
• Pie Bob's Arbroath
• Father's Little Dividend
• Roger Steffens
• Kimi Eisele
• The End of the World As We Know It
• George Smith
• Ceramic Scottie Dog with Water Bowl
• Leonardo da Vinci 500 years on
• The World in...Mexico
• The epiphany of German weakness
• Who Killed Brexit?
• The World in 2019
• Gladsome 30
• America's bosses will be dragged into politics
• Oops
• Winnie Ewing
• Donald Dewar
• Martin Stephenson
• Paper chase
• Thomasina
• Men In Black
• British politics will move both quickly and slowly
• Introducing 5G
• The year in culture
• A Newly Connected Continent
• Australia's Energy Crisis
• Science and technology
• Hacking Gets Physical
• Chris Jameson
• Culture
• Apocalypse
• Whisky Related
• Making Whisky
• Pulque
• Whisky Barrels
• The Angels Share
• Limited quantities of The Killer Cookbook available
• Haunted Highway available to buy online
• Bagging a Stag at the Stuart Arms, Dufftown
• See Irvine Welsh as My Type of Person