Brian Fagan Audiobooks

With The Little Ice Age, popular archaeology at its most readable

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Who is Brian Fagan?

Brian Fagan (1936 to 2025) was a British author who specialised in popular archaeology – books that carried serious scholarship out of the seminar room and to general readers. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and that pairing of posts and paperbacks tells you what to expect: an academic’s grounding delivered with a populariser’s touch, a combination rarer than it should be.

He died in 2025, leaving a substantial shelf of accessible writing on the deep human past – books that assume curiosity rather than expertise.

Brian Fagan in audiobooks

Our catalogue includes The Little Ice Age, a title that announces its subject – a long cold chapter in the climate story – and shows exactly what Fagan stood for: taking a large, complicated subject from the scholarly literature and making it genuinely engaging for the rest of us.

Popular archaeology and history of this kind are superb in audio: narrative-led, free of footnote-chasing, ideal for walks and long journeys. For UK listeners with an interest in climate, history, and the ways the two entangle – and given the weather here, who isn’t interested? – this is an inviting and surprisingly timely way in.