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Saga of the Swamp Thing | Alan Moore
For years, when people asked me why I bothered reading comics,…
November 15, 2023/by sandywRiverflow | Alison Layland
In a village in the Welsh Marches, the undercurrents are…
October 2, 2023/by Liz JensenThe Last Quarter of the Moon | Chi Zijian
‘A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety…
September 12, 2022/by KatieHope: Visions for a Better Future | Create the Future
Too often, we focus on the kind of future we fear.…
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk
In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric…
September 25, 2022/by KatieThings We Didn’t See Coming | Steven Amsterdam
Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we…
February 7, 2023/by KatieVenomous Lumpsucker | Ned Beauman
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse…
Habitat Man | D.A. Baden
Inspired by a real-life green garden consultancy,…
The World According to Anna | Jostein Gaarder
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Lamentations of Zeno | Ilija Trojanow
Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Man Who Planted Trees | Jean Giono
‘And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns.’…
September 12, 2022/by KatieThe Flood | Maggie Gee
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Swarm | Frank Schatzing
The creatures of the world's oceans have had enough…
The Mermaid of Black Conch | Monique Roffey
‘His stomach trembled with desire and fear and wonder because…
September 12, 2022/by KatieThe Rapture | Liz Jensen
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds,…
February 7, 2023/by KatieFlight Behaviour | Barbara Kingsolver
"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops…
February 7, 2023/by KatieCeremony | Leslie Marmon Silko
Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is…
May 31, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe Sea and Summer | George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90% in the year 2041…
February 7, 2023/by KatieSolar | Ian McEwan
‘Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the…
September 12, 2022/by KatieBirnam Wood | Eleanor Catton
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla…
The Fish | Joanne Stubbs
‘There is a fish on the sand; I see it clearly.…
The Ice | Laline Paull
It’s tomorrow and the Arctic summer sea ice has completely…
March 27, 2023/by KatieMan in the Holocene | Max Frisch
A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Drowned World | JG Ballard
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Healer | Antti Tuomainen
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless…
May 31, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe Healer | Antti Tuomainen
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Bone Clocks | David Mitchell
Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes:…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Tusk that did the Damage | Tania James
‘There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt…
September 12, 2022/by KatieWeather | Jenny Offill
Lizzie works in a university library. One of her jobs is answering the…
May 30, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperMigrations | Charlotte McConaghy
Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who…
Stolen | Ann-Helen Laestadius
The story of a young Sami girl’s coming-of-age,…
The Man with the Compound Eyes | Wu Ming-Yi
‘You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with…
September 12, 2022/by KatieThe Windup Girl | Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl is the ground-breaking and visionary modern…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Ice People | Maggie Gee
It's the middle of the 21st century, and the next Ice Age…
February 7, 2023/by KatiePod | Laline Paull
Ea has always felt like an outsider. She suffers from a type…
May 31, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperA Friend of the Earth | TC Boyle
It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony | Roberto Calasso
‘To decolonise a culture, you have to deal with the Underworld.…
September 25, 2022/by KatieThe Stone Gods | Jeanette Winterson
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet -…
February 7, 2023/by KatieTHE FUTURE | NAOMI ALDERMAN
The future that Alderman conjures in her ambitious, exuberant…
November 15, 2023/by Liz JensenEntropia | Samuel Alexander
When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade…
November 20, 2022/by KatieNew York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson
As the sea level rose, every street became a canal, every…
March 27, 2023/by KatieThe Devil’s Highway | Gregory Norminton
The Devil’s Highway is the folk name for a Roman road in north…
March 27, 2023/by KatieThe Carbon Diaries 2015 | Saci Lloyd
It's January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Rings of Saturn | W.G. Sebald
What begins as the record of W.G. Sebald's own journey on…
September 25, 2022/by KatieThe Book of Dave | Will Self
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote…
February 7, 2023/by KatieOdds Against Tomorrow | Nathaniel Rich
New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the…
February 7, 2023/by KatieArchipelago | Monique Roffey
Inspired by the flooding of her brother's house in Trinidad…
May 31, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe Wall | Marlen Haushofer
‘The air trembled, gold and green and clear, at the edges…
September 12, 2022/by KatieEven If Everything Ends | Jens Liljestrand
Raging wildfires sweep through the Swedish countryside –…
October 2, 2023/by Liz JensenThe Overstory | Richard Powers
‘This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of…
September 12, 2022/by KatieThe High House | Jessie Greengrass
Perched on a hill above a village by the sea, the high house…
May 31, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperMaddAddam | Margaret Atwood
Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the…
February 7, 2023/by KatieEarth | David Brin
Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Swan Book | Alexis Wright
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still…
February 7, 2023/by KatieAnd Still The Earth | Ignacio Brandao
Welcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future.…
February 7, 2023/by Katie