Library Online: In-conversation with James Bradley - Ghost Species

Don't miss out on a special online in-conversation with James Bradley via Zoom - courtesy of Riverina Regional Library.

Set in Tasmania in the very near future, 'Ghost Species' centres on a secret project to resurrect Neanderthals, and it’s about extinction and de-extinction, loss and love, climate catastrophe and collapse.

Reserve your copy of Ghost Species from Central Coast Library Service.

James Bradley novels include - 'Wrack', The Deep Field, 'The Resurrectionist' and 'Clade', and a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus. His books have won or been shortlisted for a number of major Australian and international literary awards and have been widely translated.

As well as writing fiction James also writes and reviews for numerous Australian and international publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Australian Literary Review, Australian Book Review, The Monthly, Locus, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Heat, The Weekend Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In 2012 James was awarded the Pascall Prize for Criticism.

James' online home is 'city of tongues'

An exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of planetary trauma.

When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species, she becomes enmeshed in another, even more clandestine program to recreate our long-lost relatives, the Neanderthals. But when the first of the children, a girl called Eve, is born, Kate finds herself torn between her duties as a scientist and her urge to protect their time-lost creation.

Set against the backdrop of hastening climate catastrophe, Ghost Species is an exquisitely beautiful and deeply affecting exploration of connection and loss in an age of planetary trauma. For as Eve grows to adulthood she and Kate must face the question of who and what she is. Is she natural or artificial? Human or non-human? And perhaps most importantly, as civilisation unravels around them, is Eve the ghost species, or are we?

Thrillingly original, Ghost Species is embedded with a deep love and understanding of the natural world.

Even though this is an online event, bookings are still required. An email will be sent out to attendees 48 hours before the event. Make sure to also check your junk/spam folder and if you don't receive an email 48 hours prior (or if you book within two hours of the event starting) please contact us for assistance.

Reserve your virtual seat by clicking the 'Book now' button, contact 4304 7500 or email [email protected]