Hugh Thomson

Blowing hot and cold | 9 November 2017

Thirty years after the Great Storm, Hurricane Ophelia smashed Ireland. Devastating cyclones look set to become the norm

  • Where the Wild Winds Are: Europe’s Winds from the Pennines to Provence

    Nick Hunt

    Nicholas Brearley, pp. 272

  • Windblown: Landscape, Legacy and Loss; The Great Storm of 1987

    Tamsin Treverton Jones

    Hodder, pp. 360

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