Time travel stories are seldom really about time, or travel, and Joyce Carol Oates’ 46th novel is no exception. Audacious, chilling and darkly playful, her thought experiment about belonging and otherness is quick to ignite, but admirably slow to reveal the full extent of its dystopian proposition. Read more
Interview with Liz on The Drax Files radio show. The interview begins at the three minute mark.
A celebration with special guests Neil Gaiman, Liz Jensen and Chris Riddell
Emotionally, an island is always more than a land-mass surrounded by water. As metaphors, islands can denote freedom, imprisonment and everything in between, while as backdrops, they invite extravagant experiment. When it comes to the latter, Kirsty Logan has form. Her debut novel The Gracekeepers, an environmental fairytale set in a lush, futuristic waterscape, won wide […]
The Arthur C Clarke winner’s dystopia is set in a future US ravaged by climate change and war The signposts have been around for decades, and the territory is increasingly well mapped. So while the past may be a foreign country, the future is an increasingly familiar one – in which we continue to be […]
According to futurologists, a baby born today will live to 100. But what do they know? In her Plague Times trilogy, Louise Welsh trashes such blithe predictions, setting the grim reaper to work in a not unlikely near-future scenario: a flu-like epidemic ravaging the world’s population and leaving survivors plunged into chaos. If the landscape is […]
Unforgiving landscapes have served Stef Penney well: she first depicted them to heart-catching effect in her Costa-winning debut The Tenderness of Wolves, a historical adventure of abduction and quest, cultural assimilation and domination set in the Canadian wilderness. A meticulously researched drama set among British Gypsies, The Invisible Ones, followed. In the stately, glittering iceberg that is Under […]
On a Swiss holiday in 1937, Liz Jensen’s grandmother and 19-year-old uncle had a row. He stormed out and vanished. Four days later, she was found dead. Eighty years on, the family is still in the grip of the mystery…
