Fiction
By Earthbound Books
By Earthbound Books
Novels that explore environmental and social justice themes.
Companion piece: The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be both
Ali Smith
£16.99 £16.14
The Wall
John Lanchester
£9.99 £9.49Who is protected from whom by this epic border wall? Lanchester's dystopia explores inclusion, exlusion and inter-generational justice.
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller
Octavia E. Butler
£9.99 £9.49Powerfully prescient considering it was released in 1993, Butler conjures dystopia from a California beset by climate-induced fire and social unrest.
Dry
Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
£8.99 £8.54What happens when the taps run dry? This YA thriller sets the action in California, but any number of cities may have to answer this question in coming years.
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Lydia Millet
£12.99A haunting allegory of denial and disaster across generational divides.
Leave the World Behind: 'The book of an era' Independent
Rumaan Alam
£9.99 £9.49Two mis-matched families hunker down in a crisis, in this funny and unsettling tale about what we value and what we deny.
The Water Dancer: The New York Times Bestseller
Ta-Nehisi Coates
£9.99 £9.49The first novel from one of America's most eloquent writers on race.
Bangkok Wakes to Rain: Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford 'Fiction with a Sense of Place' award
Pitchaya Sudbanthad
£9.99 £9.49An extraordinary portrait of a city, told through a series of vignettes of ordinary lives. The book quietly moves from past to present, to a speculative future in which Bangkok is underwater - as is projected by 2050.
High As The Waters Rise: A Novel
Anja Kampmann and Anne Posten
£24.99 £23.74A beautifully melancholic story about an oil rig working wrestling with grief and identity.
We Are All Birds of Uganda
Hafsa Zayyan
£14.99A story of family, race and migration, told across two continents and two decades.
When the Lights Go Out
Carys Bray
£14.99 £14.24Exploring eco-anxiety in a marriage, with humour and perception.
Waste Tide
Chen Qiufan
£18.99 £18.04Chen Quifan draws on his own experiences of the e-waste trade in China to inform his sci-fi novel about the underside of technology.
Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver
£9.99 £9.49A woman comes face to face with an uncanny natural phenomena in this beautifully written story of changing people in a changing landscape.
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
£9.99 £9.49A naturalist explores the natural wonders of the Sundarbans, while others struggle with the encroachment of the sea into their community.
News from Gardenia
Robert Llewellyn
£9.99 £9.49Robert Llewellyn, of the Fully Charged Show and Red Dwarf, tries his hand at a sustainable utopia. There aren't many utopias around these days, are there?
Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
Esi Edugyan
£14.99 £13.94A slave boy is taken on as an assistant by a white scientist in this adventure story that investigates race, prejudice, and the motives behind apparent altruism.
The Underground Railroad: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017
Colson Whitehead
£8.99 £8.54A woman on the run from slavery travels a surreally literal Underground Railroad through a series of imagined Americas.
The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard
£9.99 £9.49Writing in the early 60s, J G Ballard set his novel in a hot and humid climate-changed London.
Oryx And Crake
Margaret Atwood
£10.99 £10.44Dark, funny and uniquely Atwood, Oryx and Crake kicks off a trilogy set in a near future distorted by genetic engineering gone awry.
Anthill: A Novel
Edward O. (Harvard University) Wilson
£12.99The respected biologist turns his life-long fascination with ants into a novel that plays out at human scale, ant scale and the grander sweep of evolution.
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
£8.99 £8.54
Ten short climate-themed stories from notable fiction writers, with proceeds going to 350.org.
The Sea and Summer
George Turner
£9.99 £9.49Written in the late 80s, this is an Australian classic of speculative fiction that describes a flooded Melbourne set in 2023.
Zone One
Colson Whitehead
£9.99 £9.49A zombie story, yes - but also a satire on the emptiness of late capitalist consumerism.
Gun Island: A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy
Amitav Ghosh
£9.99 £9.49
