James Bradley
@ghostspecies.bsky.social
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. https://linktr.ee/jamesbradley
I'm a big admirer of @alexsteffen.bsky.social - this will be great!
If you get the urgency of planning for escalating climate risks in smart and engaged ways, this 30-day workshop is for you.
Check it out:
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Check it out:
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The Personal Climate Strategy Workshop
30 days to get ready for a planet in crisis. Starts October 7th!
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September 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I'm a big admirer of @alexsteffen.bsky.social - this will be great!
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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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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.
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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.
September 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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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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
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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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August 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
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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.
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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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August 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
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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
Explore these themes in our London event on 12 June, where we’ll discuss new ideas about humans and nature buff.ly/8vp0OI1
#worldoceansday
June 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
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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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
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
April 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
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
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.
www.smh.com.au
April 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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...
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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.
Landfall by James Bradley
In an already swamped city, a disastrous weather system looms, making the search to find a missing child urgent.
www.penguin.com.au
April 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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.
Fantastic piece by @jockserong.bsky.social.
Hi there. First post, and where better to start than a lengthy polemic about an industrialised meat protein that harms you, the ocean and democracy.
I'll post parts 2 and 3, via Patagonia's Roaring Journals, once they're published.
www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin...
I'll post parts 2 and 3, via Patagonia's Roaring Journals, once they're published.
www.patagonia.com.au/blogs/roarin...
Captives Going in Circles - Patagonia Australia
Part 1: How the salmon industry disenfranchises Tasmanians. Story by Jock Serong. Photographs by Nick Green
www.patagonia.com.au
April 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Fantastic piece by @jockserong.bsky.social.
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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.
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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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April 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
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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!
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!
March 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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!
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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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.
‘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
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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.
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...
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.
www.smh.com.au
January 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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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Great review by @ghostspecies.bsky.social of a fascinating and eerie novel www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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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January 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Great review by @ghostspecies.bsky.social of a fascinating and eerie novel www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
"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.
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
"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...
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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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!
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!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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!
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!
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...
March 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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...
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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January 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"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."
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November 19, 2023 at 11:24 PM
"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."
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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...
November 19, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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...
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.
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November 5, 2023 at 3:10 AM
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.
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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!
October 31, 2023 at 10:59 PM
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!
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...
October 31, 2023 at 10:34 PM
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...
Here's me on Charlotte Wood's remarkable new novel, Stone Yard Devotional in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...
October 23, 2023 at 10:26 PM
Here's me on Charlotte Wood's remarkable new novel, Stone Yard Devotional in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...