Within days of taking office incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to announce new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea as well as taking public control of Thames Water.

Feature by Rachel Pryor

With July comes the realisation that we’re already over half way through the year, and I for one am woefully behind on my TBR target! But the release schedule waits for nobody, and we’v…

What counts as “dystopian” fiction anymore? Where is the line between the apocalypses of our beloved sci-fi books, and the climate disaster that surrounds us? Herein enters “Clima…

YouTube video by Alison Layland

#TalkingLocationWith… Martine Bailey, author of Isolation Ward, set in YORKSHIRE I knew right from the beginning that the setting for my latest book,

Leadbrook ancient woodland and meadows is under threat again by the Red Route: a proposed 13km highway that would destroy irreplaceable habitats. The North Wales Regional Transport Plan should not inc...

Language, history and arts are what make us a nation – and they’re at risk when funding is slashed to levels among the lowest in Europe, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

Two great new novels that explore climate change and its effect on the zeitgeist

New futuristic climate change novel After the Clearances from author Alison Layland coming summer 2025