Neil Shea’s Frostlines: An Epic Exploration of the Transforming Arctic, which will be published on Thursday (Picador), was reviewed yesterday in The Sunday Times by the travel writer Sophy Roberts (author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia and A Training School for Elephants). In the 40 years since the publication of Barry Lopez’s “masterly” Arctic Dreams, she says, “the region has experienced climate breakdown and an escalating geopolitical scramble. We’re sorely in need of an update… Frostlines, therefore, is a book to treasure.” Shea, she says, is “a likeable, self-effacing narrator”, who “interweaves natural and human history, travelogue and climate reporting without losing sight of how it feels to be in this landscape”.