Ice Shock longlisted for the 2026 Sunday Times Fiction Prize
We’re delighted that Ice Shock has been longlisted for the 2026 Sunday Times Fiction Prize! The novel is one of twenty in the longlist in a year that marks the […]
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Elleke, Southern Imagining, and Ice Shock in Times Higher Education
Times Higher Education has featured an in-depth profile on Elleke by Matthew Reisz. In it, he explores the thematic resonances of both Southern Imagining (a ‘hugely ambitious’ and ‘very striking
The Conversation review of Ice Shock: ‘a novel about passionate love in a time of climate crisis’
Rodwell Makombe has published a review of Ice Shock for The Conversation. In it, he describes the novel as ‘a breathtaking story’ and ‘an attempt to rethink and rewrite how
Life-lines South and North: Professor Elleke Boehmer and Dame Professor Hermione Lee on Ice Shock and Southern Imagining
Join Professor Elleke Boehmer, who will discuss her two new books, Ice Shock (2026) and Southern Imagining (2026), in conversation with Professor Dame Hermione Lee on 26 May 2026 at
Ice Shock and Southern Imagining at Gondwana in Lisbon
If you’re in Lisbon on the 20th of February, please join Elleke and the great Alberto Manguel at Gondwana bookshop to talk about all things southern and Elleke’s two new
Books on the Bay 2026
Elleke will be in conversation with Karina Szczurek about Ice Shock at the Books on the Bay festival in Simon’s Town on 14 March 2026.
Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer for the JRB
In a review for the Johannesburg Review of Books entitled ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’, Barbara Boswell discusses Ice Shock as: [A]
Review of Ice Shock in The Polar Journal
Elizabeth Leane has written a review of Ice Shock for The Polar Journal: “Entangled stories of a warming continent: a review of two recent Antarctic novels”. In it, she calls
London launch of Ice Shock with Kate Kennedy
Elleke will be in conversation with Kate Kennedy at Hatchards in Piccadilly, London on 18 February 2026.
Oxford launch of Ice Shock: Conversation with Richard Beard
Elleke will be in conversation with Richard Beard about Ice Shock at Daunt Books in Oxford on 3 February 2026.