Greta named author of the year
Teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has been named Waterstones' author of the year for her first book, No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference.
The 16- year- old activist's work, published in May, is a collection of her speeches about climate change.
The British book retailer also chose Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse as its book of the year, beating The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Queenie by Candice CartyWilliams.
Miss Atwood's book was named joint winner of this year's Booker Prize. A cookery book, Dishoom, and a picture-book retelling of Charles
Darwin's On The Origin Of Species also featured in the 11-strong shortlist.
Miss Thunberg, from Sweden, was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize after spearheading a global movement demanding world leaders take action over climate change. It led to co-ordinated school strikes across the globe.
Some of Anya’s research is being supported under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded Small Grants Programme, which is in its sixth operational phase. This initiative is part of the $2.5 million programme, designed to protect and conserve the Colombo Wetlands, Knuckles World Heritage site, and the coastal region from Mannar island up to Jaffna within a 4-year period.
Anya sees clear long-term benefits in this approach. For starters, the charismatic cats are likely to be a