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- Sep 29, 2026
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World of Books Reveals Shortlist for 2026 Sustainable Story Award with £25,000 Prize Fund (opens the original)
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Why Trophy Hunters Should Be In Our Sights + GIVEAWAY (opens the original)
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John Ironmonger talks about writing a novel about hunting endangered species, The Angel of St Piran. The story follows a gymnast who travels to a remote African island to study chimpanzee communication, only to find they’re under attack by a group of illegal trophy hunters. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LeLq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff103bbd7-7f8f-400
Why I turned away from dystopia (opens the original)
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It is so tempting to set climate fiction in a near-future or far-future world. Indeed, I have taken this approach with not one but two of my novels. However, for my latest foray into climate fiction, Alston Moor, I abandon this approach in favour of setting my novel in the present-day and the sixteenth century, in Tudor times.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X69W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s
Is it me? Is it the characters? Is it the book? (opens the original)
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My middle-grade book Music Camp was published last year. It’s about kids on music camp who endure a climate change-induced disaster. This was my sixth book for kids published by University of Queensland Press in Australia.The idea for this book came from having gone to a lot of school music camps. I wanted to write about the ambitions, intense friendships and hilarity that happen in creative places. For a compelling story, I needed a major obstacle. I decided it would be climate-related, and mor
Can AI help save the planet? (opens the original)
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In The Emptying, the new Troika Books novel for teen readers, multi-Yoko Carnegie Award nominees Rachel Delahaye and Mimi Thebo portray a future world where AI has helped to restore planetary systems destroyed by the climate crisis. In this conversation, they discuss how and why they came to believe that a future like this may happen and what they see are the potential advantages and dangers of AI in planetary cooperation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="
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