This timely novel explores a dystopian Asian future, the result of interference with nature. Rajat Chaudhuri’s ‘The Butterfly Effect’ blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian doll narrative. –Scroll.in Read an excerpt at Asian Review of Books Goodreads Reviews Back to … Read more
One of the reasons climate change is so hard to even think about – let alone understand fully – is that it manifests in many different ways. We’re seeing some of those manifestations now in the form of wildfires ravaging … Read more
This looks fantastic! A fairytale/fantasy where surrounding nature strongly intersects with the story. A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman’s myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an … Read more
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction, Elmet is an unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape. [Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 2017] Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads … Read more
The beauty of the Cornish countryside… The innocence of childhood in the 1980’s… An ancient mystery not quite forgotten. Mullaney-Westwood’s first novel is a spiritual coming of age tale mixing haunting faery lore and a deep love for the natural … Read more
This is book one of the Skye Van Bloem trilogy. Polar ice caps are melting. Whole ecosystems are being destroyed. Wildlife is being carelessly slaughtered. Eighteen-year-old Skye Van Bloem didn’t create the environmental crisis facing our planet, but she’s angry … Read more
This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Eco-fiction, and I wanted to make it special on this fifth anniversary. Perhaps this should have been my first post ever, but it took me a long time … Read more
Unfortunately I cannot find this book at Goodreads yet, but the Hindu Business Line has an interesting article with the title: Unquiet Flows a River: The English translation of a famed 1974 Tamil novel lets a broader audience take in … Read more
Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the “void behind the face of order,” is a surreal … Read more
Click here for all, including The Vorrh and The Erstwhile. The richly grotesque Vorrh trilogy describes a quest to rescue the tree of knowledge and return Creation to a state of primal innocence. –The Guardian In the stunning conclusion to … Read more
