The Stranding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD

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Dreamland is set in a near-future Margate where soaring temperatures and rising sea levels has forced those who can to move inland. But we turn the pages because we want to know what will become of the protagonists; after all, the narrative has rendered them so alive in our imaginations, and actually, we do care what will happen. She suspects the killings have something to do with a pact their group all made at university - to never have children.

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But there is also something very hard to figure out about them: an unexplained child washed up on the shore almost feels like something out of folktale. Whereas The Road supplies no “before” (we have only the man, the boy, and the hell through which they walk), The Stranding provides a privileged view into an earlier life, which helps the reader to appreciate the journey Ruth makes from being dependent (upon her parents, her friends, her partner) to learning how to become independent, to becoming dependable for her children. I read a variety of genres so it could be anything from fiction, non-fiction, romance, historical fiction or a thriller and I really hope that you’ll enjoy each of them as much as I do.Kate Sawyer has created a dystopia so unerringly familiar that it can make you laugh and shiver simultaneously. He needs Stan's help, and above all his friendship, but is Stan really there for the man who once showed him the meaning of loyalty? TV rights have already been snapped up by Sony with the Chernobyl director attached and rights have been sold in 26 territories. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania back to the US. There’s much to be gained from reading The Stranding in this light and, in particular, as a companion text to The Road.

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She is one half of writing duo Calder Szewczak, whose first book, The Offset—about a world in which all children must pick one of their biological parents to die as a carbon offset for their own life—will be published by Angry Robot in September 2021. When a body is discovered on the beach long-held secrets threaten to emerge in the murder investigation that follows. Both books—both genres—pose the same question in different guises: who would you become if freed from all present constraints?But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past, they soon realise that their lives will never be the same again. Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn't stop her looking for love online.