John Ironmonger

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lilwal... do try to come if you’re in Manchester in November… it would be so cool to catch up 😃

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Fiction wise my top reads have been The Eights by Joanna Miller and The Wager and the Bear by John Ironmonger but I've also had a proof of the new Oyinkan Braithwaite which was excellent.

Nonfiction - Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid & Mythica by Emily Hauser really stick out

😃Local author @johnironmonger.bsky.social will be touring 'The Wager and the Bear' at The Curious Cat Bookshop Cheshire in August!
This is a heart-stopping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love, cast against the long unfolding backdrop of an irreversible global crisis

Linghams book club- the Wager and the Bear - Linghams Booksellers When young idealist Tom publicly humiliates politician Monty in a Cornish pub, it sparks a simmering feud that cascades through their intertwined lives. The consequences of their argument, and the dea...

linghams.co.uk/event/lingha... I've left it a little late to promote this - sorry. But for anyone very local who has an hour to spare, I'll be at the amazing Linghams Bookstore later this morning to do book club things about #TheWagerandtheBear Exciting!

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A grid of six books in two rows. The three non fiction books on the top are Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid Mythica by Emily Hauser Florrie by Anna Trench The three fiction books on the bottom row are When The Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi The Eights by Joanna Miller The Wager and the Bear by John Ironsides

As we get to the very end of June I thought I'd post my top reads of the year so far (from books that are already published)
As I read a pretty much 50/50 split of fiction & non fiction I thought I'd do the same here but it was far harder to narrow the non fiction down!
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Frogs in a Saucepan: John Ironmonger, ‘The Wager and the Bear’ We are frogs in a saucepan. All of us. We never noticed the water getting warmer and warmer. And now it’s almost too late to jump out. We tolerate the slow erosion of our climate the way a fr…

"Frogs in a saucepan": at my blog, some thoughts on John Ironmonger's 'condition of the planet' novel The Wager and the Bear.

Frogs in a Saucepan: John Ironmonger, ‘The Wager and the Bear’ We are frogs in a saucepan. All of us. We never noticed the water getting warmer and warmer. And now it’s almost too late to jump out. We tolerate the slow erosion of our climate the way a fr…

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@johnironmonger.bsky.social sold out ALL copies of 'The Wager and the Bear' at Linghams Heswall Bookshop (part of #IndieBookshopWeek) - of course he did!

'The Wager and the Bear' is a heart-stopping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love

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Katie smiling and holding book stack outside bookshop window with the Edge of solitude by Katie hale, at the mountains of madness by HP Lovecraft, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, lean fall stand by Jon McGregor, and The wager and the bear by John ironmonger.

Book stack on gate in front of field and green fells under grey sky

On this very hot long summer day, a polar stack from our #IndieBookshopWeek guest bookseller @katiescribbles.bsky.social, who last night won the @societyofauthors.bsky.social Tom Gallon short story prize. Cool down with one of these polar novels, the last of her 3 piles of #RecommendedReads

Thanks Rohan … sorry to leave you feeling bleak though 🫤

I finished “The Wager and the Bear” - probably the most frankly didactic novel I’ve read in ages (that wasn’t a 19th-century one). It tells a pretty good story too, but it left me feeling quite bleak. In so many areas we know the right thing to do but just don’t do it. 😢

It's #independentbookshopweek If you are anywhere near #wirral I shall be guest-bookseller at the incomparable Linghams Books in Heswall tomorrow (Saturday) from 1pm to big-up 'The Wager and the Bear.' Do call in to say, 'hi.' I'd love to see you. And here's to indie bookshops!

Thanks Isabelle! 🙏 Good luck Sheena … 😃

Ahh thanks Mark!

I'd like to gift someone The Wager And The Bear by @johnironmonger.bsky.social if you can lay hands on that.

Just entered The Wager and the Bear @johnironmonger.bsky.social & The Others by Sheena Kalayil into the #neroprize - wish these talented authors luck!! #books📚💙

Today, TO Munro interviews @johnironmonger.bsky.social‬ on his cli-fi novel THE WAGER AND THE BEAR

"I hope that writers of contemporary stories will weave the climate into their tales... we ought at least to acknowledge the backdrop"

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On Publication Journeys (Or: How It Sometimes Takes a Donkey Ride) Plus events and new totes!

'First – be patient. Your first novel may not be your masterpiece. It probably won’t be. But writing is a craft. The more hours you spend writing, the better you get at. It’s no different in this respect from playing piano' @johnironmonger.bsky.social
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INTERVIEW WITH JOHN IRONMONGER (THE WAGER AND THE BEAR) | Fantasy-Hive Today, TO Munro interview John Ironmonger on his cli-fi novel THE WAGER AND THE BEAR: "I hope that writers of contemporary stories will weave the climate into their tales... we ought at least to ackno...

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Such a great bookstore in Amsterdam : Boekhandel van Rossum and really lovely customers. Loved signing there. Thank you Julie Couture. I’m looking forward to coming back next year 😃#thewagerandthebear

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Kindle deal! The Wager and the Bear by @johnironmonger.bsky.social

A heart-stopping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love, cast against the long unfolding backdrop of climate catastrophe.

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A man with neat white hair and a white beard smiles at the camera. He is wearing a petrol blue rugby style shirt with a white collar. He is smiling gently at the camera. His head and shoulders are visible and behind him the blurred background is varying shades of sand brown and sky blue.

The Tyne Bridge is pictured in the centre of the frame over a still, reflective River Tyne in Newcastle, UK. Either side of the bridge are buildings with a warmer glow as the sun rises. The words Northern Voices in white lettering feature in the bottom centre of the image.

'I think everyone should be writing about climate change.'

Novelist @johnironmonger.bsky.social on documenting the climate crisis, his new book The Wager and the Bear from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social and how he almost deleted the email that got him an agent.

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Screenshot reads: In a pub in a coastal town in Cornwall, in The Wager And The Bear by John Ironmonger (Fly on the Wall Press, £11.99), a boy named Tom, who’s been studying earth sciences at university, is back home for the summer and catching up on what he’s missed in the way of local gossip and local cider. When the constituency’s MP, a pompous climate-denier, enters the pub, tipsy Tom can't resist goading him into an argument. Someone’s phone films the politician’s humiliation, and the resulting video comes to frame the rest of both men’s lives, spent in a world of rising seas and vanishing clouds. Yes, this is another climate change novel; yet another one, as those who are beginning to fear they’ll spend every day between now and the end of the world reading climate change novels might groan. But this one is fun. Ironmonger’s settings are explorable, and his characters the more intriguing the more you get to know them. His writing is warm and witty; this may well be a book you’ll read more than once. It’ll sing different songs to different readers. What I heard was the importance of avoiding capture by pessimism or optimism, those vampiric impostors, and instead finding a praxis that is based on realism, hope and above all on doing.

What a fantastic review for The Wager and the Bear @johnironmonger.bsky.social in #themorningstar, thank you!

'His writing is warm and witty; this may well be a book you’ll read more than once... finding a praxis based on realism, hope and above all on doing'
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A review in the Morning Star no less 😃 of #TheWagerandtheBear

Dazu Omas Lese-Empfehlung:
"Das Jahr des Dugong" von John Ironmonger und/ oder
"Die letzten ihrer Art" von Maja Lunde.

Die Erzählung ist schön und gut durchdacht, auch wenn ich nicht verstehe, warum das Ende so ist wie es ist. Die Geschichte ist spannend und durchaus ein Pageturner, aber hier und da wirkt sie ein wenig flach. Vielleicht sind es die Gegensätze, welche die Story wirklich erst interessant macht. Es gibt viele Charaktere; jeweils mit ihrer eigenen Stimme sind sie einigermaßen gut ausgefeilt, aber hier und da auch klischeebehaftet. Sehr tiefgehend ist eher der Hauptprotagonist, alles andere wirkt ein wenig ausgeklammert. Insgesamt fand ich den Roman eher durchschnittlich.

John Ironmonger - Der Wal und das Ende der Welt
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In the latest episode of The Write Club, we chat with the eco-fiction writer John Ironmonger, who shares his unconventional (and inspiring) journey to becoming a published author. 

If you’re an aspiring writer, this one’s for you! ✍️✨ https://writ.me/JIronmonger