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Solitaire Townsend

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Solitaire Townsend is an environmental expert by day, and storyteller by night. After decades of teaching governments, global brands and even movie studios how to communicate sustainability, she now has stories of her own to tell.
Godstorm is her debut novel.
She regularly blogs for Forbes, has a popular TED talk, and wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction book The Solutionists.
While some of her characters might not know that they are 'LGBTQIA+' or 'neurodivergent', Solitaire does because she’s also both. She lives in London, and once visited an oil-rig in the Amazon, which caught on fire. ...more

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	Godstorm: The Most High Octane and Original Fantasy Debut of 2026 (Godstorm 1) 3.63 avg rating — 246 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Solutionists: How Businesses Can Fix the Future 3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Naked Environmentalist it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Godfire: The explosive sequel to Godstorm where the world burns hotter, blood runs deeper and no one escapes the Colosseum (Godstorm 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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