Landfall

A gripping near-future thriller exploring the detrimental effects of climate change on ordinary lives.

PRAISE FOR LANDFALL

Propulsive

A devastating and heartbreaking portrait of a terrifying future world and the chinks of humanity left within it. Unmissable

Absorbing, unsettling and masterfully written - Bradley's vision of the future will stay with me for a long time

No one is better than James Bradley at finding the human stories in a world whose climate has broken. Landfall is propulsively told, vividly imagined and full of humanity

Australia's literary Nostradamus

A propulsive crime thriller , drawn from a deep understanding of our likely urban futures

Bradley flips the well-loved trope of the missing child by transporting it from its cliched bush setting into a post-climate-apocalypse Sydney, producing a genre mash-up of cli-fi and detective fiction . . . At its heart, Landfall is a tale of human resilience and connection , urging collective action on climate change from a dedicated writer who will persist until we heed the call

I loved Landfall . Of course the writing is next level - elegant and beautiful, the descriptions of decaying urban environment - and nature and its forces - just brilliant . The whole book has a very urgent, activating edge

Bradley has done something very clever with Landfall . He entices us in with all the bells and whistles of an unputdownable crime thriller , but then demands that we pay attention and imagine what our country could look like as climate change takes hold

Erudite and propulsive with a big-budget, cinematic climax . . . [ Landfall takes] these disparate threads - police procedural, climate refugee, the dissolving memories of a once-proud man - and brings them together into a meaningful and satisfying whole

Propulsive and thought-provoking

James Bradley is an author and critic. His work includes the novels Wrack , The Deep Field , The Resurrectionist , Clade and Ghost Species , a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus , and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean . His books have won The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the FAW Literary Award, and have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction amongst others. He lives in Sydney.