Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world

From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them.

'A novel like none other' AMITAV GHOSH'A masterpiece' AVNI DOSHI'Wise, funny, touching' ROBERT MACFARLANEWinner, Sushila Devi 2023Winner, Atta Galatta 2023 for Best FictionWinner, AutHer Award 2023 for FictionFinalist, Tata Live Award for Fiction 2023Longlisted, 2023 JCB Prize for LiteratureShortlisted, Valley of Words Awards 2023 for English FictionABest Book of 2022 in The New YorkerFour lives, uniquely linked, in a story that journeys across continents and centuries For Shai, lost and drifting, a visit to her hometown in India s Northeast offers the possibility of new ways of living.

'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian A small miracle New Statesman Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page TelegraphAn introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye.

In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear.

WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, suffering and empowerment 'A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia' Richard Flanagan, Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthKnowing that he will soon die, Albert Poppy Gondiwindi has one final task he must fulfill.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change Stephenson s reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved Sunday Times His most visionary, and timely, book yet Chicago Review of Books Absorbing speculative fiction Guardian Brilliantly entertaining at science fiction s cutting edge SFX Ingenious and sometimes prophetic TelegraphNeal Stephenson s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

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