Wild FictionsWild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection. From the significance of the commodification of the clove, the diversity of the

juggling otters

'Triumphant conclusion

he must confront the truth about that day

Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby

'A finely calibrated account of loss

The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide

and people begin to listen

life is comfortable

Jack and Ma are prisoners

From Mark Z Danielewski

'If a house could gossip

there are words that have defined and decried us