Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 6hAh thanks so much. Hope you enjoy the read. 🤞 (Bridge 108 released at the very start of Covid! Who wanted to read a dystopia then?) 010
Reposted by Anne CharnockAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The perfection of this. 12879136
Reposted by Anne Charnock@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026100,000% Team Anne - hooray!!!! www.theguardian.com/books/live/2...theguardian.comCanadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – liveDecision announced by permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy 1244
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Over the moon (and peatbog!) with this review: “assured atmospheric writing” “exquisite realism” “characters are compelling”. Thank you, Ben, for your personal response to Alston Moor 📖 💚 🙏 041
Reposted by Anne CharnockRewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 07/10/2026In 2025 alone, wildfires burned ~ 47,000 hectares of land. Britain needs to Rewild to Recover from worsening future wildfire threat, says our new report published today: Rewilding and climate resilience: reducing wildfire risk in a heating climate. 🔥 Read the full report: f.mtr.coolReport: Rewilding and climate resilience: wildfiresExploring the important contribution that rewilding plays in reducing wildfire risk in a heating climate. Read our comprehensive report. 05331
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ll be talking about ALSTON MOOR at the historic @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. What’s more, I will be in conversation with the amazing @sannewman.bsky.social RSVP for this free event: housmans.com/event/book-l... @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social 01712
Reposted by Anne CharnockE. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When There Are Wolves Again is on the UK Kindle Daily Deal today (5 October) for 99p. Bargainous! 😊🐺 amzn.eu/d/0en8hTOd 03220
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For Monday: one turnstone with one periwinkle on the shore at Ardbeg Point, Isle of Bute. 💚 051
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.comRevealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfiresFOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear 084
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Brilliant 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. 021
Reposted by Anne CharnockOliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, 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! 2259
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thank you! I’ll read Woman, Wolf. Also I’m a big fan of When There Are Wolves Agan. 021
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And intriguing comparisons re the positioning of eco fiction and speculative fiction. 120
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.socialancillaryreviewofbooks.orgBogs, Books, and Magic Boxes: Review of Alston Moor and Woman, Wolf, Carbon CaptureSo 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… 21611
Reposted by Anne Charnockbogtrotter2024.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." 021
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.comSkylarks 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 072
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.comExit Party by Emily St John Mandel review – alternate visions of post-crisis AmericaIs 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 033
Reposted by Anne CharnockCalum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026really 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...thequietus.comThe Metaphysics Of Narrative: M. John Harrison’s Uncanny Canon | The QuietusM. 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... 0258
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes, it’s disconcerting, and not referred to in the article. 000
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My 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 CalleThe 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 110
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The old pier at Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute. Atmospheric despite gloomy weather. 0120
Reposted by Anne CharnockThe Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026 411870
Reposted by Anne CharnockSimon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I loved to bits The Coral Bones by @catamaroon.bsky.social: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...0tralala.blogspot.comThe Coral Bones, by EJ Swift 1125
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For Monday: 2 teeny periwinkles on the intertidal at Glecknabae. So gorgeous 💚 180
Reposted by Anne CharnockNiall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Thoughtful 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" 153
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My medieval storyline includes the lead miners of the time. Fascinating history. 000
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.’ #peatlandrestorationtheguardian.comThe women saving Borneo: battling fire, patriarchy and super El Niño on Indonesia’s peatland frontlinesFire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community 062
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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.socialclimatefictionwritersleague.substack.comWhy I turned away from dystopiaby sci-fi writer Anne Charnock 1219
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.comArtist delights in beautiful ‘mess’ and dead trees of England’s rewilding sitesRebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibition 060
Reposted by Anne CharnockSuw @suw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This 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...npr.orgA fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survivedAn extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not. 191
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026To 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. 141
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I 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. 121
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I 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.comShelfies #104: Anne CharnockBeing able to identify cloud types is a wonderfully direct way to connect with our physical world. 0174
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I could spend all day watching Elle Cordova’s videos 😂 020
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Review 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.ukAlston Moor by Anne Charnock – The Spider's HouseNina Allan's Homepage 040
Reposted by Anne CharnockGoldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Double 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... 042
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thanks 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 000
Reposted by Anne CharnockSarah Such @sarahsuch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A 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 121
Anne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Equally startling, September 1st always feels more New Year to me than January 1st. 110