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James Bradley

@ghostspecies

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

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That’s fantastic. Thank you so much. I’m delighted you’re enjoying it. And I’m a big fan of @drbradbrad.bsky.social’s work as well!

14.12.2025 00:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm a big admirer of @alexsteffen.bsky.social - this will be great!

29.09.2025 08:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! Very pleased (and relieved!) you're enjoying it.

29.09.2025 08:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The hardcover edition of James Bradley's Landfall.

The hardcover edition of James Bradley's Landfall.

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.

24.09.2025 12:03 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0

Thank you! I'm so thrilled you enjoyed it.

18.09.2025 04:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

09.09.2025 10:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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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…

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
unseenlibrary.com/2025/08/20/q...

20.08.2025 17:00 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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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…

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.
unseenlibrary.com/2025/08/20/c...

20.08.2025 17:02 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you! I'm really pleased you liked it (and grateful to you for taking the time to write about it).

24.08.2025 00:34 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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BrushTurkeys - SPOTTERON Apps The BRUSHTURKEYS app is all about Australian Brushturkeys extending their natural habitat, which usually includes rainforests and woodlands, to suburban areas. The brushturkey is a fascinating bird fo...

You get a lot of them on the North Shore - my brother is in Wollstonecraft and has them in his garden - and you occasionally see them in the inner west and the city (there are a couple that live by the Cooks River in Marrickville). Predictably there's an app... www.spotteron.app/apps/brushtu...

05.08.2025 00:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

02.06.2025 10:10 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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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

24.04.2025 17:49 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

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...

24.04.2025 00:10 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I hope you enjoy it!

23.04.2025 01:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Landfall by James Bradley In an already swamped city, a disastrous weather system looms, making the search to find a missing child urgent.

You can get copies now at any good bookstore or online. Australian readers will find links at www.penguin.com.au/books/landfa..., UK readers will find them at www.hodder.co.uk/titles/james.... I hope you enjoy it!

23.04.2025 00:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Landfall The new thriller from "Australia's literary Nostradamus" (The Weekend Australian) The world is in the grip of climate catastrophe. Sydney has been transfo...

I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who’s helped bring it into the world, but in particular @meredithcurnow.bsky.social and everybody at @penguin.com.au, Jake Carr and the team at @hodderbooks.bsky.social and my agent, Matthew Turner. www.hodder.co.uk/titles/james...

23.04.2025 00:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Landfall by James Bradley In an already swamped city, a disastrous weather system looms, making the search to find a missing child urgent.

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.

23.04.2025 00:20 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Fantastic piece by @jockserong.bsky.social.

10.04.2025 06:26 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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 …

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.
unseenlibrary.com/2025/04/09/w...

09.04.2025 17:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

That's wonderful, and incredibly generous of you - thank you so much. I hope you continue to enjoy it!

10.04.2025 06:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! And really pleased you're enjoying the book so far - hopefully that will continue.

26.03.2025 06:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! I'm very keen to read Neil and Jack's books as well.

06.03.2025 22:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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!

06.03.2025 18:05 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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‘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

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.

20.02.2025 02:24 👍 275 🔁 138 💬 24 📌 43

Fantastic - I hope you enjoy it!

03.02.2025 04:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These are gorgeous. Thank you.

18.01.2025 21:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That is unbelievably generous of you - thank you so much. And I'm glad you're reading TDF - it's one of my favourite of my books, and I wish it was still in print. And thank you again - I'm so grateful.

18.01.2025 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

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...

17.01.2025 05:30 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Thank you - I'm pleased you liked it!

17.01.2025 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And to you.

13.01.2025 00:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0