Haunting, prophetic and fiercely human – a powerful exploration of survival, resistance and moral reckoning in a world undone by climate collapse.
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Essays, reports and commentary on publishing, editing and the changing landscape of contemporary fiction.
The machines that loved us to death
When Stoke-on-Trent writer Brendan Nugent began sketching the idea for his debut novel The Sentient Ones, he wasn’t just imagining distant galaxies or killer robots, he was thinking of home. Of the red-brick terraces, of the old pottery works, of the canal paths of...
Deadly secrets and dystopian fears
The title of this Newark Book Festival talk – Deadly Secrets and Dystopian Fears – could hardly have been more apt. In the intimate surrounds of the town’s National Civil War Centre, speculative thriller author Eve Smith took centre stage, joining crime writer Eva...
The Water that May Come
The downstairs room at Lark Books in Lincoln was already warm with bookish expectation when the audience reverberated with a low, knowing laugh. On the very day Amy Lilwall was formerly launching her novel The Water That May Come the first named UK storm of the 2025...
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