An exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of planetary trauma, Ghost Species is the latest novel by prize-winning author and critic James Bradley. When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species, she becomes enmeshed in a clandestine program to recreate our long-lost species, the Neanderthals. James talks with ABC Radio’s Cassie McCullagh about the novel that Charlotte Woods characterises as “prescient, thrillingly imaginative... urgent and frighteningly timely.”