Back to the Indie Corner series Intro During the summer and autumn, we often visit Wolfville’s Farmers’ Market in the lush Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. During one of those trips this past year, I was amazed to meet the most interesting author, Anne Smith-Nochasak. We talked for a long […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book This month we travel to the Amazon with Mona Shomali, author of Water Mamas: A Novel of Climate, Spirituality, and Indigenous Human Rights. In the not-so-distant future, the Earth’s lungs are failing. A United Nations representative, Afa, finds herself […]
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Maggie O’Farrel’s (author of Hamnet) novel Land is about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization, and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As […]
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Newly translated by David Hackston. A breathtaking literary achievement and an adventure that crosses continents and centuries, Beasts of the Sea is a tale of grand ambition, the quest for knowledge, and the urge to resurrect what humankind has, in its ignorance, destroyed. Read more at Hachette Book Group.
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Rebooted for November 2025 At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, Arif Anwar’s The Storm (Washington Square Press, 2021) “moves us deftly through time and across borders, beautifully illustrating the strange intersections we call fate, […]
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Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have […]
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Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear. Read more at Playwrights Canada Press.
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Click here to return to the series This is a reboot of the world eco-fiction spotlight from November 8, 2019, where we headed for the first time to the USA. Having spent a great amount of time in the Appalachian Mountains as a child (you can read more here), when […]
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“Justin Haynes delivers an evocative coastal world where the tide and the sky have as much power as governments and borders. Ibis moves the reader through Caribbean history and nature, driven by a compelling ensemble, some looking for truth and some hiding it. Striking in its language and imagery, this […]
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Editor’s note: I’m interested in this book because it’s based on the historical reality of a Black kingdom in Appalachia; the book seems to connect people to a beautiful land where they can independently sustain themselves. “Picture a time when a kingdom existed inside the confines of the Carolinas—a time […]
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Edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and curated by Grist, this anthology of innovated and visionary stories are winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. These stories are grounded in soul, a deep communion with the belief that we can—and must—rebuild our relationship with the planet. -Omar El Akkad, author […]
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“Part espionage and part existential thriller, Creation Lake dives deep into the world of ideology, environmental activism, and ultimately, the nature of identity itself.” See more at TypeBooks.
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Colorist: Jillian Dolan; illustrator: Alina Pete In 1944, thirteen-year-old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family’s trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young Indigenous girl defies the odds and endures nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. Ilse faces many […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act of resistance is an act of sheer […]
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“Under the Bakul Tree is one of the finest environmental commentaries of our times.”-Bijal Vachharajani Read more at Penguin Random House.
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