Landfall

An absolutely ripping read. Timely eviscerating and heartbreaking. Urgent, unsettling and impossible to put down. This made my heart ache for all the loss that's still to come, even as i tore through the pages to see how the mystery resolved itself.

Dinuka McKenzie

Bradley has done something very clever with Landfall. He entices us in with all the bells and whistles of an unputdownable crime thriller, but then demands that we pay attention and imagine what our country could look like as climate change takes hold.

Claire Nichols, ABC RN, The Bookshelf

Propulsive.

Sian Cain, The Guardian

A bleak vision of our ecological future—and a brilliant police procedural. Bradley’s most commercial novel to date is one of the highlights of my reading year.

Simon McDonald

Landfall imagines a city at the fruition of the countless warnings we've ignored: shattered, exhausted and violent. Bradley's heatwave and looming storm make for wild drama: they're also what's waiting for us, on all the evidence. This is a propulsive crime thriller, drawn from a deep understanding of our likely urban futures. James Bradley has found yet another way to smash our apathy.

Jock Serong

In Landfall, Bradley elevates the crime genre to portray a world where climate change has already landed and there’s no hiding from the consequences or the growing social divides. Absorbing, unsettling and masterfully written – Bradley’s vision of the future will stay with me for a long time.

Sara Foster

Landfall is a deeply moving thriller, with police officer Sadiya desperately searching for a missing child before a deadly storm hits Sydney. The flooded cityscape is unrecognisable, humanity teetering on the brink, its inhabitants haunted by memories of the world before. A devastating and heartbreaking portrait of a terrifying future world and the chinks of humanity left within it. Unmissable

Heather Critchlow

I loved Landfall. Of course the writing is next level - elegant and beautiful, your descriptions of decaying urban environment - and nature and its forces - just brilliant. The whole book has a very urgent, activating edge.

Paul Daley

Bradley flips the well-loved Australian trope of the missing child by transporting it from its cliched bush setting into a post-climate-apocalypse Sydney, producing a genre mash-up of cli-fi and detective fiction. In Landfall, environmental devastation is not merely a backdrop to the action; it is a central character and driving narrative. The police investigation into Casey’s disappearance is hindered by the everyday reality of living with the extreme heat and inundation of a coastal city on the brink of societal collapse. At its heart, Landfall is a tale of human resilience and connection, urging collective action on climate change from a dedicated writer who will persist until we heed the call.

Justine Hyde, The Sydney Morning Herald

Propulsive and thought-provoking.

Miriam Cosic, The Saturday Paper