"It's a book about how time and space connects - has always connected - in unexpected ways."
Dr Friederike Otto reflects on Madeleine Thien's philosophical time and space-bending novel, The Book of Records.
Discover the six shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
"Funny, pacy, experimental and a romp"
Climate Fiction Prize Judge, @savidgereads.bsky.social shares what he thinks makes Maria Reva's novel, Endling unputdownable.
Learn more about the shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
"Beautifully written [...] almost like a sort of gem"
Jessie Greengrass on Helen Phillips' Hum, an exploration of family life in a future with heightened surveillance and guarded access to nature.
To find out more about the six shortlisted books, visit: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
"A humorous hopeful read alongside being about extreme danger and grief."
Arifa Akbar on Susanna Kwan's exploration of community in the face of climate crisis, Awake in the Floating City.
Discover more about the shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
"You wouldn't expect to laugh with the topic of terrible environmental destruction, but I actually laughed a lot reading this."
Here's Climate Fiction Prize judge, Dr Friederike Otto, speaking on Keshava Guha's The Tiger's Share.
The shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
"Utterly original and tender"
Watch Climate Fiction Prize chair of judges, Arifa Akbar speak on the first book on our shortlist spotlight: Dusk by Robbie Arnott. (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)
Discover more about Dusk and the other shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...
Well that's my Easter reading list sorted...
I really like the look of this list!
I’ve already read three: Endling, Hum and Dusk, which are very different from each other, but excellent in their own way. Endling is probably my favourite - but I’d like to read the other three too!
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You're halfway there! 🧡
The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️
The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it.
Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk
Yesterday, Climate Spring's Director Lucy Stone and Climate Fiction Prize judge, Simon Savidge took to the main stage at London Book Fair to discuss why climate fiction is an exciting and pertinent genre.
Shortlist announced on March 18.
The longlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk/longlist-2026/
Thank you for joining us!
We want to hear your guesses! 👀
With less than one week to go till the shortlist is announced we want to know which books you think will end up on the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist. Share your predictions!
Shortlist day is right around the corner! 1 week to go till the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is announced!!
How many of the longlisted books have you read?
We're thrilled to share that we'll be at @hayfestival.bsky.social this May! 🪁
Join us for an insightful conversation with the winner of the Climate Fiction Prize in the first live conversation following the winner announcement on May 27.
Full programme: www.hayfestival.com/m-232-hay-fe...
Last but not least, An Yu's Sunbirth ☀️
The town fell on hard times before the sun began to shrink, but now, every few days, a new sliver disappears. When the Beacons appear – people with heads like miniature suns – the residents wonder if they are their salvation, or signals their impending ruin.
Juice by Tim Winton 🪫 is up next
Survival is only the beginning.
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site, the most promising refuge they’ve seen. The man thinks to himself, this could work.
Problem is, they’re not alone.
🚨 Shortlist event alert 🚨
Under three weeks till the Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is unveiled on March 18th, and we're thrilled to invite you to join us for a FREE special Climate Fiction Prize Shortlist event at The Conduit, London to mark the occasion!
🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2026-c...
The Book of Records by Madelein Thien 📕
Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations. In this building, pasts and futures collide as Lina learns the role of fate in a history book exploring our search for home, faith and humanity.
Next on the longlist is Maria Reva's Endling 🐌
Endling is an unforgettable debut novel about the journey of three women and one extremely endangered snail through contemporary Ukraine.
🌟 We'll be at London Book Fair! 🌟
Climate Fiction Prize Judge, Simon Savidge, and Climate Spring's Lucy Stone will discuss how climate stories don’t just sound the alarm, but help us imagine what it means to live, adapt and dream in a fast changing world. www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/get-ti...
Today's book is Helen Phillips' Hum 🤖
In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by robots called “hums,” May loses her job to AI. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it can't be recognised by surveillance.
The Price of Everything by Jon McGoran 💼
Armand Pierce is a courier: the delivery is life or death. So when he arrives at his destination to find his payload missing, and something threatens to upend the global order, Pierce had better get to the bottom of it, before it catches up to him.
If you're into any kind of #climatecomms, you could treat yourself to a new book from the Climate Fiction longlist, to end your week.
Can confirm or deny that more books are en route to my house, and no, I don't know which overfull bookshelf they will go on either.
Next, Awake in the Floating City By Susanna Kwan 🌧️
Bo knows she should go. Years of rain have drowned the city and almost everyone else has fled. But when the health of Mia – a prickly, elderly lady Bo cares for – deteriorates, Bo determines to honour their disappearing world.
Albion by Anna Hope 🏡
The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home to bury Philip. With the family split over the future of the estate Clara's arrival, shrouded in secrets, brings with her a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.
Next, Sarah Hall's Helm 🌬️
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. Helm is the story of a unique life force, and of a relationship: between nature and people.
We're spotlighting The Tiger's Share 🐅 by Keshava Guha
The fiercest wars are fought between siblings. Tara, is everything her younger brother isn’t: dedicated, independent, thriving. When their father retires, he summons them to a meeting. But what he has to say threatens to tear the family apart.
Join us for a special event celebrating the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist, following its announcement on March 18 with judges, Arifa Akbar, Dr. Friederike Otto, Jessie Greengrass and Simon Savidge.
🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March
🕗 6:00 pm
📍 The Conduit
🔗 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2026-c...
Next, Grace Chan's Every Version of You 🌐
Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside Gaia, a consumerist virtual reality. In the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi’s mother is stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.
