Thank you to a reader for this shot of my future fiction stories, The Water Age, being read in Cornwall, and for the comment that it is an ‘intriguing, sensual and sad book, reflecting with such careful insight on the nature of water and our nature as watery beings’. 

The book is a collection of short stories all engaging with water. Meanda is set on a watery exoplanet and tells the story of first contact between a human and the amphibian inhabitants. Another story imagines scientists in a top secret lab on Iceland who are working to graft themselves with algae.