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James Bradley

@ghostspecies.bsky.social
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Author of Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species. Editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean. New book, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, coming 2024. He/him. linktr.ee/jamesbradley

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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'm a big admirer of @alexsteffen.bsky.social - this will be great!
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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Curently reading @ghostspecies.bsky.social 's latest, set in a sea-changed Sydney. A near future police procedural thriller enlivened by sympathetic sub-plots involving two very different refugees.
The hardcover edition of James Bradley's Landfall.
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jensmartwriter.bsky.social @jensmartwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I’ve just finished reading @ghostspecies.bsky.social novel Landfall. Loved it! Started it on Monday, couldn’t put it down. I don’t usually read crime fiction, but James Bradley is such a great writer that this crosses genres effortlessly. The depiction of a future Sydney is all too real.
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The Unseen Library @theunseenlibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I also just reviewed the compelling Australian crime fiction read, Landfall by @ghostspecies.bsky.social. An intriguing novel with a cool dystopian twist, Landfall was a great read that comes highly recommended. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social unseenlibrary.com/2025/08/20/q...
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Quick Review – Landfall by James Bradley
Publisher: Penguin (ebook – 23 April 2025) Series: Standalone Length: 336 pages My Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Amazon Those in the mood for a though-provoking and powerful Australian crime fi…
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The Unseen Library @theunseenlibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I recently had a review column in the #CanberraWeekly featuring 3 outstanding pieces of Australian fiction, including novels by #SRWhite, #JamesPatterson and #CandiceFox and @ghostspecies.bsky.social. unseenlibrary.com/2025/08/20/c...
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Canberra Weekly Column – Australian Crime Fiction – 17 April 2025
Originally published in the Canberra Weekly on 17 April 2025. A copy of this column also appeared on the Canberra Daily website. Make sure to check out my extended reviews of Pacific Heights, 2 Sis…
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 02/06/2025
The ocean’s rhythms offer insights into the cycles that sustain life on Earth and connect us to the presence surrounding us buff.ly/9F3oxpr Explore these themes in our London event on 12 June, where we’ll discuss new ideas about humans and nature buff.ly/8vp0OI1 #worldoceansday
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Hodder & Stoughton @hodderbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A missing child. A city on edge. A race against time... The gripping new dystopian thriller LANDFALL by James Bradley is out now in hardback and eBook: www.amazon.co.uk/Landfall-Jam... @ghostspecies.bsky.social
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Completely delighted by this wonderful review of Landfall in The Age/SMH. Incredibly grateful to Justine Hyde for her very generous and thoughtful reading of the book. www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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James Bradley’s new novel subverts the classic crime-solving trope
Landfall, like Bradley’s previous two novels centres on exploring the impacts and possible remedies to the human-induced climate crisis.
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My new novel, #Landfall, is published in Australia and the UK today by @penguin.com.au and @hodderbooks.bsky.social! It’s a crime thriller set 30 years from now in a Sydney transformed by climate catastrophe, and it follows a detective and her partner's desperate search for a missing girl.
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Landfall by James Bradley
In an already swamped city, a disastrous weather system looms, making the search to find a missing child urgent.
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Fantastic piece by @jockserong.bsky.social.
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The Unseen Library @theunseenlibrary.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I had another amazing week of reading so make sure to check out my latest #WWWWednesday post that features awesome books by @ghostspecies.bsky.social, #SuzanneCollins, @robertjbennett.bsky.social, and more. unseenlibrary.com/2025/04/09/w...
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WWW Wednesday – 9 April 2025
WWW Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Taking on a World of Words, where bloggers share the books that they’ve recently finished, what they are currently reading and what books they are planning …
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
On #WorldBookDay take a break from doomscrolling to lose yourself in some science, and support science writers! Here are a few of my favorite new releases, from @neilshubin.bsky.social @ghostspecies.bsky.social. Plus new ones from @endofthepier.bsky.social & @restingdinoface.bsky.social Explore!
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
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‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Here's me in the SMH on Jonathan Coe's funny and furious new novel, The Proof of my Innocence. www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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Jonathan Coe’s savage portrait of 21st-century British politics
Coe riffs on cosy crime, dark academia and auto-fiction in his new novel, but these jags are embedded within a larger metafictional game.
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Great review by @ghostspecies.bsky.social of a fascinating and eerie novel www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami review – when humans don’t come first
The spectre of extinction hangs over the Japanese writer’s brilliantly strange and unsettling vision of evolution
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
"Writing about that black summer now, I find myself back in the vertigo of those weeks, the omnipresent blood-red skies and stink of smoke." Five years on from the Black Summer I wrote about why it's difficult to move on for @australia.theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Our sky turned red. In black summer, Australia stepped off ‘some kind of precipice’
The black summer bushfires heralded the beginning of a time when we realised the world as we knew it was gone. Five years later, we still space for grief, anger and political action
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
If you're free on Wednesday 3 April from 2:00-3:30pm I'll be speaking at a special launch event for Deep Water at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. Tickets are free, and it should be a great event. Come along! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/book-launc...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
The Guardian have been running a great series about summer away from the beach. I was lucky enough to be invited to write about the hottest time of the year in Sydney's inner west. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
"While there is no breakdown between fighters and civilians, most of the dead are women and children. In just a little over a month of war, that amounts to over 0.5 percent of Gaza’s more than 2 million people." www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Terrific article exploring the experiences of writers working in the climate space by Alex Cothren, Amy Matthews and Rachel Hennessy in Text. Includes interviews with Jane Rawson, @lucytreloar.bsky.social, @mireillejuchau.bsky.social and more. textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/9009...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Fascinating piece about using bull kelp to track natural disasters and better understand the climate of the past by Bill Morris in @hakaimagazine.bsky.social. hakaimagazine.com/news/kelp-ke...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
The new issue of @GreatOceanQrtly is out! Great writing and stunning images about the Great Southern Reef, plus a piece by me about the submerged physical and cultural landscapes off Australia’s coast. Congrats to Jock Serong, Mick Sowry and Mark Willett on another incredible instalment!
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Great Late Night Live interview with Scott Bennett about the devastating marine heatwave bearing down on Australia's Great Southern Reef. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Here's me on Charlotte Wood's remarkable new novel, Stone Yard Devotional in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
"We do not for one moment accept that this country is not ours. Always was. Always will be. It is the legitimacy of the non-Indigenous occupation in this country that requires recognition, not the other way around. Our sovereignty has never been ceded." ugc.production.linktr.ee/2e09849a-25e...
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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Today's column
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Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate da...
It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster
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James Bradley @ghostspecies.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
I reviewed Laura Jean McKay's fantastic new collection, Gunflower, for The Saturday Paper. TLDR? I loved it. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
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Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals in That Country was one of the breakout books of 2020. A joyously original collision of science fiction, deadpan humour and linguistic experimentation about a pandemic
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 26/09/2023
Handy IEA cheat sheet for #COP28 & beyond 1.5C means… Now 🏭no new unabated coal 🛢️🔥no new oil or gas By 2030 🌄3x renewables 🏬2x efficiency 🔥-75% methane In NDCs for 2035 📉advanced CO2 -80% 📉emerging/developed -60% By 2050 ⚡️power 90% renewable 🔌energy 50% electric
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
"Climate villain: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt" by Graham Readfearn and Adam Morton for The #Guardian: www.theguardian.com/media/2023/s...
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‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and d...
The tycoon, who is stepping down from News Corp and Fox, has used his outlets to promote denial and delay action, experts say
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