Categories: Young Adult, Contemporary, Activism
Published by Bloomsbury (out now)
The Summer We Turned Green by William Sutcliffe
It’s the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke’s life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved ‘across the road’ – where a community of climate rebels are protesting the planned airport expansion – then his dad followed her. Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he’s out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking mead (whatever that is) with the best of them… Luke is determined to save his family, but his dad and sister only seem to want to save the planet. So how does Luke find himself at the top of a tree refusing to leave until the bulldozers stand down? A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation’s must-win battle: one earth, one chance.
Categories: Dystopia, Young Adult
Published by Orion (out now)
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2001, Marcus Sedgwick’s powerful debut novel about surviving in a sinking world marks the beginning of the author’s multi-award-winning career.
Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.
Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can. Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island. But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of danger too.
The belief that she will one day find her parents spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that is handled with warmth and humanity.
Categories: Young Adult, Fantasy, Dystopia, Vegan Fiction
Published by Chronos Publishing (out now)
Earthlings – The Beginning by Ray Star
Peridot has lived a sheltered life. Raised on a remote island off the coast of England by an over protective mother, Peri has never left the comfort of her home, or met another child before. Until the night of her thirteenth birthday, when a strange boy appears at her window, filthy and malnourished, claiming to have escaped captivity from the mainland.
Her mother insists that the ways of the world are to remain concealed until her sixteenth birthday, but she unveils why they live in hiding, the mainland isn’t safe for their kind – they are born of magick. Not magic from stories and fables, but real magick from the days of old. The power to control earth, air, fire, water and spirit; an Elemental.
On her quest to learn the truth, Peridot leaves the island on her sixteenth birthday only to finally comprehend why the truth was kept from her. Life on the mainland is unlike anything she could have fathomed possible, humanity is enslaved, and the remaining species are in charge.
Peridot finds herself thrown into a world she wasn’t prepared for, caught amongst an ongoing battle between those trying to save humanity and the tyrants seeking to keep them enslaved. Struggling to command magickal abilities she doesn’t fully understand or know how to control. Her abilities may be the helping hand needed to save humanity from an awful way of life, but at what cost?
Within Peridot’s grasp is the chance to save the world, and earth knows, the world needs saving
Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers. When they meet Professor Macblain, with his weird and wonderful inventions, little do they know that he has a secret: not only is he a thief, but he has stolen the one thing that can save the Firth of Forth from environmental catastrophe. A madcap adventure unfolds in this funny and fast-paced tale of disasters waiting to happen.
Categories: Middle Grade, Adventure
Published by Pokey Hat (out now)
The Last Year of the Wild by Lizzie Pepper
The year is 2060, springtime is missing and Britain hasn’t seen snow for over twenty years…
Unbeknown to the creatures of the wild, Human ‘Beings’ have been destroying their homes for centuries.
But will they discover the truth in time?
This adventure story of friendship and bravery is set against the backdrop of the degrading landscapes of Britain, ravished by the effects of climate change. A wild community of birds battle the last of the winter’s weather and urgently seek any sign of the spring that nourishes them. The year ahead promises to be the most demanding yet.
To their horror, they discover a devastating oil spillage in the North Sea. This endangered community start to realise that there might be a link between the evil of the black sea, the lack of food and continual storms which feature in their everyday lives. Slowly they start to believe the unthinkable suggestion that the Human ‘Beings’ maybe to blame. Surely, they wouldn’t destroy their own planet? Would they?
The adventure to survive and discover the truth begins…
Categories: Middle Grade, eco-adventure
Published by Matador – Troubadour Publishing (out now)
The Edge of the Silver Sea by Alex Mullarky
“A hundred miles from the mainland, half in the sea, half out of it.
The rules are different here…”
All 13-year-old Blair Zielinski wants is a way off the remote Scottish island her parents have dragged her to. Roscoe is home to thousands of deer, a couple of hundred people, a complete lack of phone signal, and some unusual violet-eyed creatures.
Blair is miserable, until an otherworldly woman with antlers, one of the island’s darkly magical fey folk, offers her an irresistible deal: complete three tasks and Blair’s wish will be granted.
As she unravels the island’s secrets, Blair soon discovers that a fey bargain cannot be broken, and her wish has put everyone on Roscoe at risk. Can Blair find a way to save her family, and the place at the edge of the silver sea that she has come to call home?
From the author of The Sky Beneath the Stone, this wildly magical upper middle-grade fantasy explores family and friendship, the balance between humans and nature, and the people and places we embrace as our own. The Edge of the Silver Sea deftly weaves Celtic mythology and folklore — from kelpies and selkies, to will-o’-the-wisps and river spirits — with themes of environmentalism, in Alex Mullarky’s trademark captivating style.
Categories: Middle Grade, Fantasy adventure, activism
Published by Floris Books (Aug 2024)
The SeaBEAN Trilogy by Sarah Holding
Life for Alice and the five other children living on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda was challenging enough, but when the strange C-Bean Mark 3 shows up and they discover only Alice can control it, their whole world changes. The C-Bean transports them far and wide to New York, Australia and the Amazon rainforest, and soon leads them to realise there are forces at work that have put the whole planet in jeopardy. Caught up in a dizzying whirl of time travel, where they arrive by accident in the past and are later imprisoned against their will in the future, Alice and her friends find themselves at the mercy of a motley crew of animals, prisoners, cyborgs and orphans. It s only when her desperate attempts to get back to her own time seem doomed, that Alice finally sees the truth and finds the courage to act.
Categories: Middle Grade, time travel, science fiction
Published by Firehorse Books (out now)
A UTOPIAN FUTURE.
A FORBIDDEN WILDERNESS.
TWO SISTERS TRYING TO SURVIVE.
Twenty-five years into the future, no humans are allowed in the Wildlands – a vast area in Britain where wolves, lynx and bison roam free. The only exception is a high-speed train line between London and Glasgow that crosses right through the heart of the project. Thirteen-year-old Astrid and her little sister, Indie, are onboard when their train slows to a brief, unexpected stop … and they find themselves accidentally left behind. Stranded in this place of astonishing natural wonders and terrible dangers, they have only a rucksack, a phone without signal – and each other. As every wrong turn takes them deeper into the Wildlands, do they have the ingenuity and determination to survive?
How far would YOU go to find your way home?
Perfect for fans of THE EXPLORER and THE LAST WILD, this riveting and emotional story takes place in an imagined future teeming with lost flora and fauna that we can only dream about encountering today.
Categories: adventure, survival, near-future utopia, hope punk, modern families
Published by Puffin (out in March 2025)
Beauty and the Bin by Joanne O’Connell
Parents are humiliating – especially when they’re eco-warriors.
Laurie loves her family and she wants to join them in making the world a better place. But right now, she doesn’t want to fish food out of bins, she wants to wear a pair of ordinary tights and have the money to order a hot chocolate at the café after school.
When a competition comes to Silverdale High looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs, Laurie finds herself unexpectedly in the spotlight. The homemade beauty remedies and potions that she has been posting online are stealing the show, and the most popular girl in the school wants to team up for the win. It seems like Laurie can achieve normality – and even popularity – at last. But will her eco-warrior family accept that she no longer wants to be part of their close-knit gang, and can she find success and glory without losing sight of her true self?
Joanne O’Connell’s Beauty and the Bin is a fresh and funny debut about friends, family, school and being a young eco-warrior.
Category: Weird Fiction, Science Fiction, Near Future Fiction
Published by Titan Books (out now)
A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key.
After the ravages of global warming, this is place of deep jungles, strange animals, and new taxonomies. Social inequality has ravaged society, now divided into surface dwellers and people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the planet’s atmosphere. Within the surface dwellers, further divisions occur: the techies are old families, connected to the engineer tradition, builders of the Barrier, a huge wall that keeps the plastic-polluted Ocean away. They possess a much higher status than the beanies, their servants.
The novel opens after the Delivery Act has decreed all surface humans are ‘equal’. Narrated by Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, she navigates the complex social hierarchies and monstrous, ever-changing landscape. But a radical attack close to home forces her to question what she knew about herself and the world around her.
Category: Near future, Science fiction, eco-thriller
Published by Book Guild Publishing (out now)
Near-future Britain. Climate change has led to food shortages and civil unrest. Pollinating insects are in steep decline. Commercial bee farmer Victor Martin travels around the farms of Kent with his hives to pollinate fruit trees and crops. Local research entomologist Dr Annie Abrams is devastated when she’s ordered to give up her captive bee colonies – her life’s work – to join forces with Victor and ensure a harvest. But the bees are dying. Their only hope seems to be an experimental alternative to insect pollination: robot pollinators called nanodrones. But why does the drone designer seem so familiar? And who is behind the shadowy organisation intent on sabotaging their vital work? Can Annie and Victor win their battle to save the bees… or is it too late?
Don’t Go To Work The World Is Ending by Paul Dalton
In 1666, a dragon attacked London, only to vanish, leaving a baker to take the blame. Now, Jack—a routine-loving physics teacher—is thrust into adventure after unwittingly pocketing a dragon scale at dinner. Soon, he’s chased across London by criminals and dives into a hidden world of restless ghosts, judgmental gods, and creatures craving corporate jargon. Rescued by Muriel, a witch with a lot on her plate, Jack is introduced to her shed-dwelling bosses, The Laurels, who task them with finding the dragon and stopping someone doing something serious with it. Joined by Muriel’s artist girlfriend, Nisha, they must stop a ruthless gangster’s plot to seize the dragon’s power for herself…if the dragon doesn’t wake up first, that is.
Categories: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Modern Day
Published by Indie Novella (May 25th, 2025)
Category: Alternative History, LGBTQ+ Science Fiction, Ancient & Classical History Fiction, Gaslamp Fantasy
Published by Bedford Square Books (out Jan 2026)
Godstorm by Solitaire Townsend
A Female Gladiator’s Vow. A Stolen Child. A Storm to End Empires
In a petrol-fuelled Roman Empire which never fell, Arrow, a gladiatrix turned governess must rescue the child she has loved as her own, a girl who could tear down the world.
When Livy is abducted during a devastating Godstorm, Arrow must unleash years of the gladiator training she’d sworn to forget, to save her. Defying her owner, a heartless Consul, Arrow turns to her ex-lover and the illegal druid underworld in a desperate attempt to rescue the girl she has come to think of as her own.
Her search will take her across Londinium, a city of petrol-powered chariots, to the pagan Old Town, and eventually the edge of the known world: the Amazon, where destiny and destruction intertwine
Facing battle and betrayal Arrow must choose: reclaim her past as a killer—or risk everything for the child who calls her “mother.”
She is the Sword.
Category: Adult Dystopia, Climate Fiction
Published by Fly on the Wall (available October 24th, 2025)
The Water That May Come by Amy Lilwall
As rising seas threaten to engulf Britain, ‘The Water That May Come’ follows four lives on the brink:
Pinko, a privileged heir clinging to decadence; Jane, a working-class vet racing to reunite her family; her pregnant 16-year-old daughter Ashleigh, grappling with impending motherhood; and young artist Gavin.
With sanctuary beckoning across the Channel, each faces impossible choices. Who will they save? What will they sacrifice?
Category: Dystopia, Science Fiction
Published by 47North and NewCon Press (out now)
From the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author, a dystopian novel of oppression set in the climate-ravaged Europe of A Calculated Life, a finalist for the Kitschies award and Philip K. Dick Award. Late in the twenty-first century, drought and wildfires prompt an exodus from southern Europe. When twelve-year-old Caleb is separated from his mother during their trek north, he soon falls prey to traffickers. Enslaved in an enclave outside Manchester, the resourceful and determined Caleb never loses hope of bettering himself. After Caleb is befriended by a fellow victim of trafficking, another road opens. Hiding in the woodlands by day, guided by the stars at night, he begins a new journey—to escape to a better life, to meet someone he can trust, and to find his family. For Caleb, only one thing is certain: making his way in the world will be far more difficult than his mother imagined. Told through multiple voices and set against the backdrop of a haunting and frighteningly believable future, Bridge 108 charts the passage of a young boy into adulthood amid oppressive circumstances that are increasingly relevant to our present day.
Category: Dystopia, thriller
Published by Darkstroke Books (out now)
Tipping Point by Michelle Cook
A tale of loss, manipulation, and the search for the truth.
What would you risk to turn back the tide?
Essie Glass might have been a typical eighteen-year-old – had life not dealt her an early blow. Struggling to come to terms with the loss of her family in a terrorist attack, and left with nothing, Essie’s not kidding herself about her world. She wants change, and she’ll be honest about it, whatever the cost. From behind her keyboard, that is…
After all, this is England, 2035. Earth’s climate continues its accelerating collapse. A powerful elite controls the disaster-weary population with propaganda, intimidation, and constant surveillance.
By all appearances, Alex Langford is a respected local businessman – until Essie discovers that he’s a murderous conspirator who’d see the planet die for his fortune.
When their paths collide, Essie must decide: how much is she really willing to pay for her honesty?
Her choices, and the events she sets in motion, pit her against both enemies and supposed friends as she risks more than just her life to thwart them.
Will she succeed in revealing the truth? And will she survive?
In a village in the Welsh Marches, the undercurrents are as turbulent as the River Severn. After a beloved family member is drowned in a devastating flood, Bede and Elin Sherwell want nothing more than to be left in peace to pursue their off-grid life. But when the very real prospect of fracking hits their village, they are drawn in to the front line of the protests. During a spring of relentless rain, a series of mysterious threats and suspicious accidents put friendships on the line, and the Sherwells’ marriage under unbearable tension. Is there a connection with their uncle’s death? As the river rises and pressure mounts, Bede’s sense of self begins to crumble and Elin is no longer sure who to believe or what to believe in.
Categories: Contemporary fiction, psychological thriller, family drama, environmental protest
Published by Honno (out now)
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
From the writer Anthony Doerr calls “a massive talent,” the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside
The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties—all single, all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth’s future, abruptly vanishes from her work and home. Together for the first time in years, the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found. Sheltered in a derelict bungalow, they reach into their common past, confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Warm, fiercely witty, and unexpectedly hopeful, The Alternatives is an unforgettable portrait of a family perched on our collective precipice, told by one of Ireland’s most gifted storytellers.
Categories: Contemporary realism, Irish literature
Published by Oneworld (out now)
The Last Good Summer by J.J. Green
In the summer of 1986, Belle McGee is thirteen. The arrival of Fionn Power at her family home sets in motion a tragic chain of events. Now a forty-something investigative journalist living in Dublin, Belle returns home one night to find Fionn standing in the hallway before inexplicably vanishing. Unsettled, Belle immediately phones her sister, who tells her that Fionn was found dead that very morning. In her journey to find answers, Belle exposes corruption and scandal and is forced to stop running from the shameful truth of 1986.
Categories: cli-fi, Mystery, thriller
Published by Book Guild (out now)
Katja’s World Game by J Ekstam
It is 2022. What can six students at a university in Bath, England, do to turn the tables and save the Earth from imminent destruction? Who will be saved? Is technology the solution or our downfall? The past and present are intertwined as the six students, from China, Iran, Northern Ireland, Norway, The Gambia, and the U.S.A try to make sense of their world and save what can be saved.
The story Katja tells is not only her own – it is also ours. It is a story of fear, despair and anger but also of hope and love.
Katja’s World Game is the first novel in a trilogy which explores the natural world, the supernatural, and the world of stories and games.
Categories: University, new adult, fantasy
Worms have more purpose than Tim, and a better love life. They break waste down into rich fertile soil; Tim just makes the rich richer. Worms copulate for three hours at a time whereas the closest thing Tim has to love is his lesbian friend Jo. Salvation comes from Jo’s flaky niece Charlotte who asks him three profound questions. Inspired, he sheds his old life to become Habitat Man, giving advice on how to turn gardens into habitats for wildlife. Each new garden offers unique challenges, from Dawn the polyamorist who wants hedgehogs (and Tim) to the Wizard of Woolston wanting a habitat for bats and frogs. But the biggest challenge is Tim’s first client, the lovely Lori. Tim is smitten, but first he has to win round Ethan her 15 year old son. Tim loves his new life until he digs up more than he bargained for, something that threatens to bring out all the skeletons in his cupboard. Only Jo, Tim’s long-time best friend knows his secret, but can she be trusted?
Categories: eco-themed rom-com
Published by Habitat Press (out now)
Send Flowers by Emily Buchanan
Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn’t left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. It’s easy to self-isolate when your heart’s shattered and the planet you’ve spent your whole life trying to save is dying right outside your window. But when a houseplant randomly appears on her doorstep with an anonymous note, Fiona feels a flicker of hope—it’s not just any plant; it’s Ed’s favorite. Thinking it’s a sign, Fiona pours Ed’s ashes into the soil, only to wake up to find the plant has vibrantly flowered. And can…talk? There’s only one logical explanation: Ed is back. This time as a houseplant.
As Fiona knows all too well, plants have needs—sunlight, water and fresh air—all of which she can’t adequately provide from her dark, stuffy apartment. Intent on keeping Ed alive, Fiona slowly ventures back out into the world, the plant’s voice and budding flowers her guiding compass. But when Ed becomes more demanding in his botanical needs, urging her toward the people and places that left her scarred, Fiona realizes that preserving Ed’s life could mean risking her own. How far will she go to keep him blooming?
Set in a future that feels all too real, Emily Buchanan’s startlingly original debut explores the right to protest amidst climate chaos, the importance of community in weathering life’s storms, and the resilience of love and hope in a world that seems beyond saving.
Categories: Adult Contemporary Fiction, Magical Realism, Speculative Magical Realism, Dystopian Fiction, Action & Adventure Fantasy
Published by Verve Books (UK), Park Row (US) (July 1st, 2025)
The Wilder Path by Deborah Tomkins
Caught between the cliffs and an unforgiving storm, Rosalie’s fight for survival becomes a reckoning with her troubled past. Trapped in a cave overlooking the roiling sea, Rosalie is forced to confront the storms within, as much as those outside. With time slipping through her fingers and danger closing in, she faces the ultimate question: can she find a way back—not just to safety, but to herself?
Categories: Adult Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Grief, Climate Activism
Published by Aurora Metro Books (available June 6th, 2025)
Categories: Fantasy, Folklore, Young Adult
Published by Cambria Books (out now)
This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? When a storm surge destroys Tomos’ luxury home and his parents die, and Bryn’s eco-home is torched and his parents killed by starving marauders, these two rivals for the same girl, Eira are forced to rely upon each other for survival in the wild uplands of Wales. One of them will die, but not before they discover the astonishing bond that joins them together. And none of these three teenagers are aware that they are living out an ancient rivalry between fabulous beings – such as Ceridwen, the Welsh Goddess of Inspiration – who are seeking to rewrite the endings of their own stories.
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