Landfall

At the end of the world, who can be trusted to keep the peace? In the murky depths of a waterlogged Sydney, the Floodline creeps ever closer, consuming entire neighbourhoods in its advance. The city teeters on the brink of submersion, a constant reminder of the looming threat of climate change. But there is life still in the city, and in any city there always crime. Sarayu, a hardened police officer, long desensitised to the trauma experienced by everyday people finds herself thrust into a new nightmare when a young girl goes missing. As the impending storm looms ominously overhead, Sarayu must navigate the treacherous waters of corruption and danger to rescue the girl, before the storm bearing down rips the whole city apart. An incredibly timely, poignant and reflective on what it means to be human on a personal and a global scale.

About the author

James Bradley is an author and critic. His work includes the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. His books have won The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the FAW Literary Award, and have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction amongst others. He lives in Sydney.

Product details

• Authors: James Bradley
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2025
• EAN: 9781399702331
• ISBN: 978-1-399-70233-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 236 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Fiction & related items, FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, FICTION / Disaster, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world