The Stranding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

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Greengrass is among a growing number of novelists who are confronting this unfolding catastrophe through the young genre of climate fiction – or “cli-fi”. It was the worst royal, sexual, political scandal of the 17th century and, according to some historians, of many centuries. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. Following the passenger's final hours and Edward's unique coming-of-age, Dear Edward asks one of the life's most profound questions: And what does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live?

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Ivy Lin, a Chinese immigrant growing up in a low-income complex outside Boston, is desperate to assimilate with her American peers. The opening of The Stranding finds English backpacker Ruth alone on a New Zealand beach desperately trying to help a beached, dying whale. Yet a ghost from her past threatens to topple the almost-perfect life she's worked so hard to build. An earlier version mistakenly said the golf course photograph tweeted by David Simon was taken in Florida, rather than Oregon.

Kate Sawyer has created a dystopia so unerringly familiar that it can make you laugh and shiver simultaneously. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations.

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Of course, there are questions left unanswered, and our scope of vision is limited to the horizon Ruth and Nik look out on. Taking inspiration from Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton's classic tale about a small-town love triangle, The Smash-Up explores a world Wharton couldn't have imagined in 1911 — one of social media algorithms, extreme polarization, the collapsing of identity into tweet-sized spaces, and the spectre of violence that now haunts even the quietest of places — but it's ultimately a story that explores the same themes as her original: duty vs. And can she stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked (but who thinks she's someone else)? Then the announcement comes: one of the islanders is a murderer and Kimberley must find out who, live on television.A memoir from singer and podcaster Jessie Ware: 'My mother's omelettes are slightly overdone but always generous in cheese and well-seasoned. The description reads: 'I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me.

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It’s a great opportunity to consider issues that many women experience in day-to-day life and compare Ruth’s responses to them according to whether they are set in the Before or After narrative,’ explains Sawyer. Two years ago, Macfarlane reported on a move by residents of the US city of Toledo to draw up an emergency “bill of rights” for Lake Erie, granting it legal personhood and according it rights in law to “exist, flourish, and naturally evolve”. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. So, when Lottie - who looks like the woman Violet wants to be when she grows up - offers Violet the chance to join her exciting start-up, she bites.

Fiercely intelligent and articulate, Samantha Shannon has been blazing a trail for a new generation of feminist fantasy authors. Its narrator, Lizzie, is a librarian whose conscience is besieged by catastrophe aphorisms (“first they came for the coral, but I did not say anything because I was not a coral …”), while her “monkey brain” worries about what will happen to her teeth in a world without dentists, and her socialised one frets that she might have got lipstick on them. Indeed, in the buildup to the nuclear event of The Stranding, Ruth refuses to engage with current affairs, in sharp contrast to her boyfriend who uses an obsessive news habit to make her feel insignificant. To help him feel grounded, he starts to unpick his family history, which leads him from Leicester to 1970's Uganda when political and racial tensions were running high and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda was imminent.