Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) & Environment Books
The publication of works such as Richard Powers’ ‘Overstory’ and Claire North’s ‘Notes from the Burning Age’ have shown the power of novels that grapple with environmental topics. These are books that stand in their own right as tremendous works of literature but which also have the courage and strength to bring our gaze towards one of the greatest issues humanity will ever face: the combined climate and ecological crisis. We therefore thought it essential to curate a list of titles which might be broadly thought of as climate and environmental fiction when we started the shop. We as humans are emotional creatures, our writers are the vanguard of collective feeling and change.
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The Man Who Planted Trees : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elz�ard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elz�ard sorting and then planting hundreds of...- £7.99 GBP
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The Mermaid of Black Conch : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
Immerse yourself in the enchanting, unforgettable Costa Book of the Year winner that has captivated BBC Radio 4 listeners. * MONIQUE ROFFEY'S NEW NOVEL, PASSIONTIDE, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER * On a tranquil day near the Caribbean isle of Black Conch, a mermaid...- £9.99 GBP
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The End We Start From
Featuring Jodie Comer of Killing Eve fame, this gripping tale is now a major motion picture. Megan Hunter's debut novel, The End We Start From, is a compelling and innovative narrative that begins as London succumbs to rising floodwaters and a woman brings new...- £9.99 GBP
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Barkskins : Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
Shortlisted for the prestigious Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and now a captivating television series, 'Barkskins' is the magnum opus of Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. This sweeping, audacious novel chronicles the devastating exploitation of the...- £14.99 GBP
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There are Rivers in the Sky
Behold, a tale of one elusive poem, two mighty waterways, and three extraordinary lives, all interwoven by a single droplet. This Sunday Times bestseller weaves a tapestry of intrigue across time and space. In the ancient ruins of Nineveh, fragments of the Epic of...- £18.99 GBP
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The Summer Book : A Novel
Prepare to be enchanted by Tove Jansson's beloved masterpiece, soon to grace the silver screen with Glenn Close at the helm. This timeless tale, hailed as a distillation of summer's essence by Robert Macfarlane and a magical, life-affirming journey by Elizabeth Gilbert, invites readers...- £9.99 GBP
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Notes from the Burning Age
Claire North, one of the most inventive scribes of our era, presents a remarkable vision of what's to come in this extraordinary tale. Hailed as "one of the best books I've read in recent years" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it delivers a potent emotional wallop....- £9.99 GBP
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Scattered All Over the Earth
*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo*A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the...- £9.99 GBP
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Extremophile
In a near-future London ravaged by climate collapse, Charlie and Parker lead double lives. By day, they're biohackers; by night, they're punk rockers. Their dodgy astronomy website, Zodiac Code, funds their lifestyle, supplemented by Charlie's custom-made biological augmentations for London's underground elements. They navigate...- £20.00 GBP
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The High House : Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award
Perched atop a hill overlooking a seaside village, the high house stands sentinel, complete with a mill, vegetable patch, and a barn brimming with provisions. One fateful day, Caro and her young half-brother, Pauly, arrive to find Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, tending to...- £8.99 GBP
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Solar : A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
Nobel laureate Michael Beard, a physicist past his prime, finds himself mired in a fog of disinterest. Not due to the planet's supposed peril—that daft notion again—but because of the zealous messenger delivering the news. Beard's days are now filled with lucrative speaking engagements...- £9.99 GBP
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Salvage the Bones
Hailed as 'a brilliantly paced adventure' by The Times and lauded for its 'fresh and urgent' prose by the New York Times, Jesmyn Ward's National Book Award-winning novel 'Salvage the Bones' is a tour de force of Southern literature. With echoes of Faulkner in...- £9.99 GBP
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Drift : Winner of the Wales Book of the Year
Caryl Lewis, the three-time Wales Book of the Year winner, presents her English language debut in 'Drift', a mesmerising tale of love, magic, and the sea's irresistible allure. This extraordinary novel has garnered prestigious accolades, including the Wales Book of the Year 2023 and...- £9.99 GBP
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The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, 'The Grapes of Wrath', sets out to shred the reader's emotions with ruthless precision. This provocative and contentious novel chronicles the Joad family's harrowing exodus from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to the promised Eden of California. Their odyssey unfolds as a...- £9.99 GBP
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The Road
Hailed as one of the finest literary works of the 21st century, The Road paints a bleak portrait of a post-apocalyptic America. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Cormac McCarthy guides us through a desolate landscape where a father and his young son embark on...- £9.99 GBP
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How Beautiful We Were
A finalist for the prestigious PEN/FAULKNER Award, this compelling narrative has been hailed as 'quietly devastating' by The New York Times and 'a David and Goliath story for our times' by O, The Oprah Magazine. Set in the imaginary African village of Kosawa, Imbolo...- £9.99 GBP
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The God of Small Things : Winner of the Booker Prize
They all defied the norms. They all ventured into forbidden realms. They all tampered with the conventions dictating who should be loved, and how intensely. This is the tale of Rahel and Estha, twin siblings growing up amidst the banana plantations and peppercorn fields...- £9.99 GBP
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain : Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDWARD STANFORD 'FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE' AWARD. Places bear witness to our existence... 'An essential, ambitious, and accomplished novel. Sudbanthad deftly sweeps us into a tale that paints a dual portrait: of a sprawling metropolis like those many...- £9.99 GBP
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The Death of Grass
A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism' Robert MacFarlane'Gripping ... of all science fiction's apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting' Financial TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEA post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece...- £9.99 GBP
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Venomous Lumpsucker : WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023
Crowned the 'Sunday Times Science Fiction Novel of the Year', this captivating tale is a masterful blend of delight, dazzle, and poignancy, as hailed by the Financial Times. The Daily Mail lauds its brutal satire and grim hilarity. At the heart of this gripping...- £9.99 GBP
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Mother Sea
Nominated for Scotland's National Book Awards in the Scottish Fiction Book of the Year category, 'Mother Sea' by Lorraine Wilson is a gripping tale of survival and hope. Set on a secluded isle in the Indian Ocean, the story follows Sisi de Mathilde, a...- £9.99 GBP
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MaddAddam
From the acclaimed author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace comes a riveting tale of survival and storytelling. In a world ravaged by a man-made plague, Toby, one of the few remaining humans, weaves narratives that bridge the old world and the new....- £10.99 GBP
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Birnam Wood : The Sunday Times Bestseller
Eleanor Catton, the Booker Prize-winning author, delivers a gripping psychological thriller in 'Birnam Wood'. This Sunday Times Bestseller has garnered critical acclaim, earning Catton a spot among Granta Magazine's Best of Young British Novelists 2023, as well as nominations for the Orwell Prize for...- £9.99 GBP
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
In this mesmerising tale, Irene Sola shatters the boundaries of human perception, weaving a narrative of primal instinct and geological time that captivates with its raw, jagged beauty. When Domenec—a mountain-dwelling poet and father—meets his untimely demise by lightning strike, his two young children,...- £9.99 GBP
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The Hopkins Manuscript
In a sleepy English village, a retired schoolteacher named Edgar Hopkins bears witness to the unthinkable - the moon has been dislodged from its celestial path and is hurtling towards Earth. As the prospect of a cataclysmic collision looms, Hopkins meticulously documents the escalating...- £9.99 GBP
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Gun Island : A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy
Embark on a spellbinding, globe-trotting adventure with Amitav Ghosh's 'Gun Island'. This folkloric novel weaves a captivating tale of family, heritage, and the mysteries that connect us across time and place. Follow the journey of a disillusioned dealer of rare books as he becomes...- £9.99 GBP
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Everything the Light Touches
Hailed as 'unparalleled' by Amitav Ghosh and 'a masterpiece' by Avni Doshi, Janice Pariat's 'Everything the Light Touches' is a literary tour de force that has garnered numerous accolades, including the Sushila Devi 2023 and Atta Galatta 2023 awards for Best Fiction. This extraordinary...- £9.99 GBP
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The Drowned World
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of `Crash' and `Empire of the Sun', reissued here with an introduction from Martin Amis. All the way down the creek, perched in...- £9.99 GBP
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The Ministry for the Future
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR 'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future' Ezra Klein, Vox 'A great read' Bill GatesThe Ministry...- £10.99 GBP
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Acceptance
Hailed as 'sheer reading delight' by the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and lauded for its 'truly potent and haunting prose' by the GUARDIAN, this NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER is a tour de force of contemporary literature. Introduced by Helen MacDonald, this final instalment...- £9.99 GBP
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The House of Broken Bricks : 'Shocking and powerful . . . This is the best kind of story telling.' Victoria Hislop
Described as 'An almanac for the heart' by Evie Woods, author of The Lost Bookshop, this haunting novel cracks open the traditional English pastoral narrative, allowing darkness to seep in. Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall, praises its 'haunting prose' as 'a pleasure to...- £14.99 GBP
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Age of the City : -- A Financial Times Book of the Year -- Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. From centres of antiquity like Athens...- £12.99 GBP
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A Pipeline Runs Through It : The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War
In this captivating exploration, Keith Fisher unravels the intricate tapestry of petroleum's influence on human civilisation. From its humble beginnings as a tool for Neanderthals to its pivotal role in shaping the modern world, 'A Pipeline Runs Through It' offers a fresh perspective on...- £18.99 GBP
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The Year Of The Flood
From the acclaimed author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace comes a gripping tale of survival in a world ravaged by a man-made plague. As dawn breaks, casting a reddish hue over the distant ocean's hazy horizon, vultures perched atop electricity poles stretch...- £10.99 GBP
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How High We Go in the Dark
Shortlisted for multiple prestigious awards, including the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022, this extraordinary novel has captivated readers and critics alike. Hailed as 'haunting and luminous' by Alan Moore and 'powerfully moving' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sequoia Nagamatsu's 'How High We Go in the Dark'...- £8.99 GBP
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The Living and the Rest
"The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times"Agualusa's funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion" Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native...- £12.99 GBP
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Fever Dream
�SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017Tightly wound and full of dread, Fever Dream is a chilling tale of maternal love and environmental catastrophe, from an Argentinian literary star��'The book I wish I had written' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women and AnimalA...- £8.99 GBP
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Oryx And Crake
From the acclaimed author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Alias Grace" comes a peculiar tale of a transformed world. Animals have undergone bizarre alterations, whilst a solitary man, formerly known as Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and resides in a tree, swathed in tattered...- £10.99 GBP
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The Wall
Lauded by the Financial Times and Evening Standard as a Book of the Year, John Lanchester's 'The Wall' has garnered critical acclaim, earning a place on the Booker Prize 2019 longlist and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 shortlist. Hailed as 'masterly' and...- £9.99 GBP
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Climate Fiction, Cli-Fi and Environment Books
Sherlock and Pages offers an extensive selection of climate fiction, or "cli-fi" books to help readers understand environmental issues through storytelling. These compelling tales shine a light on climate change, environmental degradation, and humanity's complex relationship with nature.
Our cli-fi books feature thrilling adventures, thought-provoking dystopias, and imaginative futures. Some explore the dangers of unchecked climate change while others envision hopeful solutions. From renowned authors like Margaret Atwood to up-and-coming voices, our climate fiction authors approach environmental themes from many angles.
At Sherlock and Pages, we carefully curate a wide range of climate fiction titles to suit every reader. Discover gripping stories that confront climate anxiety or more lighthearted adventures imbued with environmental themes. Let cli-fi open your eyes to our planet's uncertain future while sparking your imagination. Browse our collection today and find books that not only entertain but also educate and inspire action towards a more sustainable world. Whether you are a seasoned cli-fi enthusiast or new to the genre, our selection promises to offer something that will captivate and enlighten you.