The Salt Oracle: Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2026

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD * 'Exquisite' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'Weird, rich and ultimately rewarding' - GUARDIAN It's been seventeen years since the internet crashed and left the world broken... Auli lives on the Bellwether, a floating college safe from the conflict of the mainland, where she studies the Oracle - an uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts and provides lost information about the world's seas. Her peaceful world is shattered when her beloved mentor is found dead. While most aboard believe it was due to natural causes, Auli discovers that he was not the benign leader he seemed - and that his death might be deliberate. Surrounded by people with their own motives and secrets, Auli doesn't know who to trust. Worse, the Oracle is attracting dangerous ghosts that threaten everyone aboard. With the Bellwether fracturing from internal and external pressures, she is forced to wrestle with a life-changing decision: save the Oracle or save the Bellwether - and all the lives that depend on it.

• Publication date: 5 November 2026
• Page count: 416
• Dimensions: Height 197 mm; Width 128 mm; Thickness 24 mm
• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-13: 9781837865758