Cover reveal!! A love story between adopted father and son. Da @arathimenon.bsky.social June 2026. Preorders... www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

It's Christmas! And books always make the best gifts. Here is a story the readers in your life will love. It delivers adventure, romance, a deadly wager, Cornwall, climate peril, and a bear. Find a copy on any bookseller's site. Happy Christmas. www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...

There's a wonderful tree-planting project in Bavaria where you can stay in a tree house and get a free copy of 'The Wager and the Bear' [Der Eisbar und die hoffnung auf morgen] And there's my face on the signboard! Surreal! Check out waldistzukunft.de

A Friday treat - DELIGHTED to have signed the next life-affirming novel from @johnironmonger.bsky.social 'The Angel of St Piran' (hbck Sept 26) Expect an epic journey from Cornwall-Tanzania, gymnasts & chimps Art -Ed Bettison www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/post/fly-on-... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Oh Blackwell's you were lovely this evening! Great chat with @amylilwall.bsky.social and @johnironmonger.bsky.social #books💙📚

Hugest congratulations to @JonIronmonger.bsky.social for winning the Most Impactful Original Story for his outstanding documentary on slavery on the High St at the BBC Local Awards. Really well deserved and such an important story

Fly on the Wall Press authors at Small Publishers Fair in London, Conway Hall! See you tomorrow 11am - 7pm (though we will be heading off about an hour early, so don't miss us!🥰) @johnironmonger.bsky.social @amylilwall.bsky.social @arathimenon.bsky.social @zahirrawrites.bsky.social

Do come and say hello to us on the @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social table. Author @johnironmonger.bsky.social will be alongside us too!

Just entered into The Climate Fiction Prize @johnironmonger.bsky.social 😀 #books💙📚

One week to go! @johnironmonger.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary festival news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/10/l...

"This will be...a global legend". Join author @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @lagoonii.bsky.social for the inaugural Fly on the Wall book club! Discussing legacies, grief, & of course, polar bears, this cli-fi novel is a treasure trove. fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87893...

Super chance to hear two of @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social authors @johnironmonger.bsky.social & @amylilwall.bsky.social reading from their fab climate fiction novels The Wager and the Bear & The Water That May Come. So looking forward to our couple of days in London. Bringing the 'fly' to London 🪰

I am so proud to be included in this amazing anthology from Matthias Jugler and Penguin - 'Wir dachten, wir konnten fliegen' (We thought we could fly). 19 writers contributed stories about extinction. Mine is about the Passenger Pigeon. Please Penguin - let's see an English edition!

Heartbreaking to hear of the death of Jane Goodall … she was probably the most inspirational conservationist ever. There will never be another like her.

I'm really excited to be part of Liverpool Literary Festival this October #LivLitFest talking about climate fiction and 'The Wager and the Bear.' If you're in the North West that week it would be amazing to see you there. lnkd.in/eSxsJSUZ

First book club! 14th October, 7pm, grab a cuppa and a copy of 'The Wager and the Bear' and come discuss this life-affirming journey, from Cornwall to the Greenland glaciers, with fellow book lovers and author @johnironmonger.bsky.social himself! fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87893...

Can't get to an in-person book club event? How about an online one? Try this one with the lovely @johnironmonger.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky Plenty of time to read the book in advance too.

thecuriouscatbookshop.co.uk/product/john... If you're anywhere near Frodsham on Tuesday it would be lovely to see any of my lovely Bluesky friends at this event ...

For a deceptively light read I’d suggest The Wager and the Bear

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 😃

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.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!

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! 💙📚 #BookSky

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

@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 www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...

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

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!

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" More: tinyurl.com/3m94vuba ‪@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social‬

'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 flyonthewallpress.substack.com/p/on-publica...

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

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. www.amazon.co.uk/Wager-Bear-J...

'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. on.soundcloud.com/iGgIClAw3AKq...

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' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sci-...

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.

John Ironmonger - Der Wal und das Ende der Welt #rezension #review #buch #buchbubble #germanbooksky #buchliebe #bücherwurm #spoilerfree #spoilerfrei #Urban #Gegenwartsliteratur #curio

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

Am supposed to be marking but got distracted by this beauty from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social by @johnironmonger.bsky.social 🐻‍❄️✨️ Here's a haiku: sunshine throughout May my students' children will ask what's a polar bear?

The Write Club podcast explores the world of #clifi with the brilliant @johnironmonger.bsky.social Join Beth and Mary as they chat with John about how a tiny Cornish village became the backdrop for his story of global catastrophe 'The Wager and the Bear' and much more. rss.com/podcasts/wri...

fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/05/the-... Delighted with this review on fantasy hive …😃

Feed: "Bookanista" By: John Ironmonger on Friday, February 21, 2025