Fire-ready / Jane Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Jane, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

short stories.

Ecofiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

iii, 188 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Manchester] : Comma Press, 2024.

Summary:

In the Australian outback, a lone farmer prepares her homestead for the latest in a growing wave of bushfires. In Oxfordshire, an elderly man protests the cutting down of an ancient beech tree by chaining himself to its trunk. In the depths of space, two evacuees from a scorched and barren Earth consider whether to tell the rest of the crew that their old home may be starting to heal... The stories in Jane Rogers' much-awaited second collection shine an unflinching light on the future health of the planet, and the prospects for its greediest tenants: us. With stories spanning hundreds of years - from the far side of the 22nd century all the way back to the darkest days of lockdown - they pose questions about personal responsibility that cannot be easily answered.

Contents:

Hope

The chemist

Doormat

Fire-ready

We are riding

Murmuration

The groundsman

Clearances

Letting things go

Daytrip to Glastonbury

The quick child

Treasure

Weeping beech

The DNA of bats

Primrose

Windfall

The night before.

ISBN:

9781912697762

1912697769

OCLC:

1349090102