Ken Hyder: 4 books

“The result is a seductively uncomplicated lattice of musical and spiritual cosmology from someone who has immersed himself in some of the most remote cultures on Earth.” Alex Neilson, The Wire Magazine “Although not a long read, it is a very enjoyable one, frank and funny and...

Chimit Ondar is a musician from the autonomous republic of Tuva, in southern Siberia, not far from the Mongolian border. A childhood friend, now a female shaman, Zoya Sedip has taken him on as an apprentice shaman. And he begins learning how to heal, how to access spiritual energy and how to direct...

Hack Attack is a 21st century fast-moving thriller exploding in a massive global cyber-terrorism meltdown.Set in the period before the Snowden NSA revelations showed just how much state-hacking was going on, the book illustrates how criminal hackers can also hold countries to ransom.In Siberia, Kolya...

The long-term future for coal looks bleak. The recent UN climate change conference in Paris called for an end to the use of fossil fuels. However, coal remains one of the world’s most important sources of energy, fuelling more than 40% of electricity generation worldwide, with many developing nations...