Books by Patience Agbabi
The Circle Breakers
by Patience Agbabi
Want to start at the beginning of the series? The first book, The Infinite, features in our interview The Best Science Fiction of 2021: The Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist, one of the few times a children’s book has been shortlisted for this prestigious science fiction book prize.
The Leap Cycle (book 3). Science fiction series with a protagonist who has time travelling powers. Age 9+
The Time-Thief
by Patience Agbabi
The Leap Cycle (book 2). Science fiction series with a protagonist who has time travelling powers. Age 9+
“We’ve got here a young heroine. She’s Afro-Caribbean, she’s autistic. She’s at high school, but this high school is very special in that she attends a school in the future, because she is a time traveler, born on February 29, during which a certain percentage of people are gifted with time traveling powers. But things are going wrong in the future. While it is aimed at younger readers, that doesn’t mean the writing is any less mature. It’s an absolute page turner.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction of 2021: The Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist
Tom Hunter, Journalist
Refugee Tales
as told to Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi, Abdulrazak Gurnah and many others
“Refugee Tales is particularly interesting because it combines literature and activism. It shows a really idiosyncratic take on the Canterbury Tales. This group of people have recreated the Canterbury pilgrimage, and walked through the land as a group of refugees and writers. Recent refugees told their stories, and for each refugee, a writer then wrote up a version of that story.” Read more...
The Canterbury Tales: A Reading List
Marion Turner, Biographer
Interviews where books by Patience Agbabi were recommended
The Canterbury Tales: A Reading List, recommended by Marion Turner
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales not only revolutionized English poetry—they’re also extremely funny and moving. Oxford Professor Marion Turner, who has written the first full-length biography of Chaucer in a generation, tells us about the extraordinary man who wrote them and why we should all read the Canterbury Tales.
The Best Science Fiction of 2021: The Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist, recommended by Tom Hunter
Every year, the director of the Arthur C Clarke Award talks us through their six book shortlist. The 2021 crop of the best science fiction books features a “deliciously pulpy” space opera, a time travel story for young adults, and a cacophonous tale of talking animals. What they all have in common is that they are by debut authors, says Tom Hunter: they represent a new generation of sci fi writing.
