Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now

city of tongues is the online home of James Bradley, author of Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist and Clade, and editor of The Penguin Book of the Ocean.

’The Changeling'
Appears in Jonathan Strahan's Fearsome Magics. Compare prices for the UK print edition and US print edition; also available for Kindle (US and UK) and most other ebook formats.

Beauty's Sister
(compare hard copy prices on Booko; also available in the UK for Kindle, and in Australia for Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, and Kobo)

’Skinsuit’

'The Inconvenient Dead'

'The Flats'

'Visitors'

'Catspaw, or The Rakshasa's Servant'

'The Element of Need: Murder and Memory in Adelaide'
(available in the UK for Kindle, and in Australia for Kindle, iBooks, Google Play and Kobo)

Strange Weather: Writing the Anthropocene

2001: A Space Oddity

James Nestor’s Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

The Beginning is Nigh: Caspar Henderson’s Book of Barely Imagined Beings

The Death of Negative Man

Encounters With The Uncanny: On Ghosts, Ghost Stories and Brain Science

Callum Roberts' Ocean of Life

Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker

Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Lev Grossman's The Magician King

Grant Morrison's SuperGods

Susan Casey's The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies

China Miéville's Embassytown

Ian McDonald's The Dervish House

Summer and the Myths of Australianness

William Gibson's Zero History, Spook Country, Pattern Recognition and Distrust That Particular Flavor

Bloody beauties: the rise and rise of vampire lit

Never real and always true: on depression and creativity

All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again: Humanity, Inhumanity and Otherness in Battlestar Galactica

The idiot box grows a brain: the rise of the new television

Perfect worlds, in miniature: stories by Annie Proulx, Robert Drewe, Michael Chabon and Anne Enright

Stealing memory's thunder: James Frey and the rise of the fake memoir

A New Type Of Conversation

On Novels and Place

Beyond the Break: On Surfing and Writing