Summerwater, Sarah Moss
…are brief chapters comprising lyrical and often ominous reports of the wildlife surrounding the human-made structures: the natural world is … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Contemporary
The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun
In this entertaining eco-thriller, the heroine curates holiday packages in disaster zones. –The Guardian An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist … Continue reading →
Summer Constellations, Alisha Sevigny
Young Adult Fiction Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen The summer after senior year of high school should be full of magic, … Continue reading →
The Octopus and I, Erin Hortle
A stunning debut novel set on the Tasmanian coast that lays bare the wild, beating heart at the intersection of … Continue reading →
On Ocean Boulevard, Mary Alice Monroe
Like the sea turtles that come ashore annually on these windswept islands, three generations of the Rutledge family experience a … Continue reading →
The Golden Rule, Amanda Craig
Earnest economic expositions and detours on “the national quarrel” over leaving the EU, along with marriage’s financial disadvantages for women … Continue reading →
Blaze Island, Catherine Bush
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush’s brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. Set on an … Continue reading →
Seasonal Series, Ali Smith
Echoing Keats’s famous ode, the book is punctuated by placid country scenes of grain being harvested, birds flying south, days … Continue reading →
Limbo: A Novel about Jamaica, Esther Figueroa
Flora Smith, Jamaican scientist and head of tiny NGO Environment Now, dedicates her life to getting Jamaicans to care about … Continue reading →
Tiger Boy, Mitali Perkins
When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find … Continue reading →