2025! A year that has been a lot of things, but one thing that made me very happy was managing to read a little more than in the last two or three years. I spent time in the company of some fantastic books – some published in 2025, some in earlier years, and a coupleContinue reading “Year in review – book recommendations from 2025”
Author Archives: E J Swift
When There Are Wolves Again is out today
When There Are Wolves Again is out today in the UK. I’m proud and delighted and hugely grateful that it’s out in the world. The hardback edition is a truly beautiful object which has been produced with much love and care by my publisher, Arcadia. You can read some early reviews of the book onContinue reading “When There Are Wolves Again is out today”
When There Are Wolves Again – cover reveal!
I’m absolutely delighted to share the cover for my new novel, WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN, publishing in October 2025 with Arcadia. Cover designer Jack Smyth has created this stunningly beautiful artwork, which perfectly captures the novel’s themes of connectivity and hope for new beginnings – I couldn’t be happier with it. My huge thanksContinue reading “When There Are Wolves Again – cover reveal!”
Favourite reads in 2024
Much of 2024 has been a flurry of work to deliver my new novel, When There Are Wolves Again, and consequentially my top reads of the year feels a little shorter than usual. Nevertheless, I loved and would very much recommend all of the below. My standout read was Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger. From documenting theContinue reading “Favourite reads in 2024”
Favourite reads in 2023
Each year for the past few years, I’ve hoped to return to my pre-pandemic reading levels. It hasn’t happened this year, and it’s probably time to accept I’m unlikely to do so any time soon. There are many factors, but one contributor is simply that I’m reading substantially more non-fiction for research, and I readContinue reading “Favourite reads in 2023”
Jo Fletcher Books to publish THE CORAL BONES and new novel THE END WHERE WE BEGIN
I’m thrilled to share that Jo Fletcher Books has acquired World rights for THE CORAL BONES and a new novel, THE END WHERE WE BEGIN. Following the closure of Unsung Stories this summer, Jo Fletcher Books will be republishing THE CORAL BONES, first in ebook and then in paperback. My next novel will publish in 2025.Continue reading “Jo Fletcher Books to publish THE CORAL BONES and new novel THE END WHERE WE BEGIN”
THE CORAL BONES shortlisted for the Clarke Award
I’m over the moon to share that THE CORAL BONES has been shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Clarke Award is given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. It’s such an immense honour to be shortlisted for this award and needless toContinue reading “THE CORAL BONES shortlisted for the Clarke Award”
Unsung, Kitschies and MCM Comic Con
Publishing can sometimes feel like the slowest moving thing in the world, but occasionally things happen at pace. A few weeks ago, my brilliant publisher for The Coral Bones, Unsung Stories, announced the heartbreaking news that they will be closing down. If you haven’t yet seen George Sandison’s post about why, please do take aContinue reading “Unsung, Kitschies and MCM Comic Con”
THE CORAL BONES shortlisted for BSFA Best Novel Award
I’m over the moon to share the news that THE CORAL BONES has been shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) award for Best Novel. It’s a huge honour and I’m immensely grateful to everyone who has voted for the book from such a fantastic longlist (do check it out for some great recommendationsContinue reading “THE CORAL BONES shortlisted for BSFA Best Novel Award”
Favourite reads in 2022
Reviewing my 2022 reading, I found I’ve read fewer books this year than in almost a decade, in part due to general life events occupying time and headspace, but partly, I suspect, because I’m still struggling to recover my pre-pandemic levels of focus. So many things fractured in 2020, and it feels as though thoseContinue reading “Favourite reads in 2022”
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