Award-winning Australian novelist and critic

James Bradley is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, Clade, Ghost Species and Landfall, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water.  His essays and articles have appeared in The Monthly, The Guardian, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Meanjin, the Weekend Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald. Deep Water has been awarded the 2025 Nautilus Gold Medal in Animals and Nature Category and the NSW Literary Award Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction. In 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Australia’s Critic of the Year, and he has been shortlisted twice for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing and nominated for a Walkley Award. He lives in Sydney.