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Anne Charnock

@annecharnock.bsky.social
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Writer. Alston Moor 1st September 2026. Dreams Before the Start of Time - Arthur C Clarke Award. A Calculated Life - finalist Philip K Dick Award. She/her. Books, birds, climate. Rep’d Sarah Such. linktr.ee/annecharnock annecharnock.com

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E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd
Cover of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift displayed on a kindle, with a 0.99 price tag
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For Monday: one turnstone with one periwinkle on the shore at Ardbeg Point, Isle of Bute. 💚
Turnstone stepping down rocky shoreline, with yellow seaweed. Tortoiseshell plumage and white breasted with orange legs. Teeny periwinkle in beak.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Shrubsole said the government must agree a plan to re-wet the UK’s peat bogs, restore lost ponds in farmers’ fields, and stop grouse moor owners setting fire to moorland.”
theguardian.com
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Morning mist, Dumfries and Galloway.
Mature tree in silhouette, in green pasture (with cow) against cloud with pink tinges. Low mist across the fields.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brilliant talk on translating Shakespeare - Daniel Hahn interviewed by @charlenebusalli.bsky.social at @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social Can’t wait to dive into If This Be Magic.
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Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, this is lovely! City of All Seasons by Aliya Whiteley and myself has been shortlisted for the Aldiss Award for World Building in speculative fiction!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you! I’ll read Woman, Wolf. Also I’m a big fan of When There Are Wolves Agan.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And intriguing comparisons re the positioning of eco fiction and speculative fiction.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“the possibilities of rewilding are coming to the forefront of speculative fiction” - @suchmayer.northsky.social on my latest, ALSTON MOOR, and WOMAN WOLF/CARBON CAPTURE and WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN. 📚💚📚 @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
Bogs, Books, and Magic Boxes: Review of Alston Moor and Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture
So Mayer Under Review:Alston Moor. Anne Charnock. Goldsmiths, September 2026.Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture. Noelle Catharine Allan. Black Lawrence Press, September 2026. It feels strange to proffer c…
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bogtrotter2024.bsky.social @bogtrotter2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born."
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A fabulous idea!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“It just goes to show that nature is always there waiting to push through.” Good news to counteract the doomscrolling 💚🙂💚
theguardian.com
Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What makes Exit Party a superlative example of the form is its structural cohesiveness, its expert play of signs and symbols, its psychological realism” - Nina Allan.
theguardian.com
Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel review – alternate visions of post-crisis America
Is the price of stability necessarily the loss of freedom? Two possible future worlds are linked in the new novel from the author of Station Eleven
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Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
really pleased to see M John Harrison on the Booker shortlist as a longtime fan. wrote about his last novel and his selected short stories back in 2020: thequietus.com/culture/book...
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The Metaphysics Of Narrative: M. John Harrison’s Uncanny Canon | The Quietus
M. John Harrison has long laboured under the unfortunate moniker of being a ‘writer’s writer’. This has always been reviewer code for ‘writer not many people read’. Active since the sixties, first pub...
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, it’s disconcerting, and not referred to in the article.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My favourite conceptual artist - reminiscent, for me, of an undercover journalist. I saw her brilliant show at the @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social some years ago. (When? I wish there had been a catalogue) So I’ll definitely make my way to Margate @turnercontemporary.bsky.social for this.
theguardian.com
‘Sometimes I do cruel things – and it’s worth it’: the fabulous shameless art of the great Sophie Calle
The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The old pier at Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute. Atmospheric despite gloomy weather.
Black and white: Weathered pier supports topped by cormorants against still, silvery sea, low cloud on distant hills.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart
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Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I loved to bits The Coral Bones by @catamaroon.bsky.social: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
0tralala.blogspot.com
The Coral Bones, by EJ Swift
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For Monday: 2 teeny periwinkles on the intertidal at Glecknabae. So gorgeous 💚
Two small periwinkles side by side nestled among rocks tinged blue and green.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you so much, Mark!!
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thoughtful post about a thoughtful novel (I have a short and positive review in the current Locus). This is a challenging point for a reader like me: "It occurs to me that by refusing a future storyline in Alston Moor, I might have created space for a more optimistic reading"
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My medieval storyline includes the lead miners of the time. Fascinating history.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘the hardest part has been convincing people in their community not to “slash and burn,” or illegally clear the land by burning it… a cheap and effective way to clear land for crops such as oil palm. That, and breaking down the village patriarchy.’ #peatlandrestoration
theguardian.com
The women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlines
Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So true. I’ve become attached to the place.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Definitely looking forward to this!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I explain my decision to centre historical fiction in my latest climate novel set on the remote peatlands of the North Pennines. @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com
Why I turned away from dystopia
by sci-fi writer Anne Charnock
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I wanted to create a positive exhibition that people could view and feel empowered to do something of their own, and not feel totally overwhelmed”
theguardian.com
Artist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sites
Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibition
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is fantastic - a T. rex or nanotyrannus ate a bird that had eaten a fish and pooped out a feather and some scales, and now we have the best-preserved bird feather ever found from the Cretaceous. Who knew that dinosaur poop was such a good fossilisation matrix? www.npr.org/2026/09/10/n...
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A fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived
An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.
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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What a great shelfie!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To avoid all the doomerism! I feel a combination of restorative writing/reading and some form of real-world activism can avoid that sense of being overwhelmed.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I find I have turned to restorative writing in the area of climate fiction. I think the dystopian approach was particularly relevant when climate change had not entered mainstream discourse.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I expect all readers could make a similarly weird stack of under-sized books. Here's my Shelfie. Such fun to write about my favourites. 📚📚📚 Thanks, @lavietidhar.bsky.social and Jared Shurin.
shelfies.beehiiv.com
Shelfies #104: Anne Charnock
Being able to identify cloud types is a wonderfully direct way to connect with our physical world.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I could spend all day watching Elle Cordova’s videos 😂
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Review of ALSTON MOOR by Nina Allan. “the quiet beauty of her landscape writing make Alston Moor a novel to be lingered over, a thought-provoking, human story”
ninaallan.co.uk
Alston Moor by Anne Charnock – The Spider's House
Nina Allan's Homepage
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Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Double Gold SF out today!! 📚📚📚 Parch Marks by Anna Orridge www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... Alston Moor by Anne Charnock www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks for your interest! I’m pleased to say Alston Moor has launched in both the UK and US today, distributed by Global Book Sales, and can be ordered through Ingram in the USA. Do you want me to organise a review copy? @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It is! Thank you!
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Sarah Such @sarahsuch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A very happy publication day @AnneCharnock.bsky.social whose brilliant historical eco novel ALSTON MOOR is out today! 'Beautifully written, capacious and deeply moving, it is a delight.'  - James Bradley 'Alston Moor is a wonderful achievement, and fiction of the highest order.‘ - Martin MacInnes
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you, Sarah 📚🙂📚
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Equally startling, September 1st always feels more New Year to me than January 1st.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks so much, Joyce.
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you, Mary!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks, Dr Dave 🙂
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh thank you, SJ!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Many thanks 🙂
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks so much, Tricia!
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you so much for these kind words 🙂📚💚
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks for everything, Una, my brilliant editor! 🙂
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Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thanks for your support and kind words! 🙂
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