I’m James Bradley, novelist and critic. My books include the novels Ghost Species, Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, the first two books of The Change Trilogy for young adults (The Silent Invasion, The Buried Ark and A Vastness of Stars) a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean, as well as short fiction and comics. My first book of non-fiction, Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, will be published in 2024.
Alongside my books I write and review for numerous Australian and international publications. Publications in which my work has appeared include The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Monthly, The Washington Post, The Australian Literary Review, Australian Book Review, Locus, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Griffith Review, Cosmos Magazine, Meanjin, Heat, The Weekend Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In 2012 I was awarded the Pascall Prize for Criticism, and I’ve been nominated for a Walkley Award and shortlisted twice for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing. You’ll find links to a selection of my reviews and articles on the Non-Fiction page.
I live in Sydney, Australia, with my partner, the novelist Mardi McConnochie, and our children, Annabelle and Theo. If you’d like to know more this interview in the Sydney Review of Books isn’t a bad place to begin.
Photo by Nicholas Purcell.
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