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Johny Pitts asks writers Carys Bray and Diana McCaulay how their novels offer hope and motivate action to address environmental crisis.
Carys Bray's WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT is a beautiful atmospheric exploration of a marriage shaped by everyday environmental anxieties, literal and metaphorical flood waters are at the door. Diana McCaulay's DAYLIGHT, COME draws on her experience as an environmentalist in Jamaica to imagine a not-too-distant Caribbean future where sunlight has become unmanageable and resources are taken by the most privileged.

Author Lucy Treloar explores how climate change features in contemporary realist Australian novels. From speculative fiction to eco-thrillers, she recommends some timely and beautiful writing which does not shy away from very real concerns of the climate emergency.

And editor and publisher Hannah Westland talks about trends in the publishing industry;, from being more mindful of the impact of shipping books to giving voice to the activist writing of a younger, genre-blurring generation.