Author Archives: Wren James

The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield by Cara Hoffman was published this month by HarperCollins. I talk to the author of the middle grade novel about her new release, and her motivations for writing about climate change. Tell us about your new book. The Ballad of Tubs Marshfield is an environmental fable about frog and hisContinue reading “Interview with Cara Hoffman”

by Marcus Sedgwick Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was writing what would become my first published novel, Floodland. Set in a future Britain in which rising sea levels from climate change have seen half of the country disappear under the waves, it came out in March 2000. Obviously, the publication of one’s first bookContinue reading “But we all know this stuff. Don’t we?”

Recommended books: STILLICIDE By Cynan Jones (New York Times) – “In “Stillicide,” the through-line is an iceberg headed for London. The novel opens many years after Britain has entered an extended drought, and enough time has passed for one phase of responses to yield to the next. After becoming a target for terrorists, a pipelineContinue reading “Climate Fiction in the news”