Books by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Rosa Rankin-Gee is the author of two novels, The Last Kings of Sark, which won Shakespeare and Company’s Paris Literary Prize, and Dreamland, set in a near-future Margate, described as “liquid grace and glinting sparkle” (The Observer), “enthralling… blazing bright” (The Guardian), “superb” (The New European) and “a triumph” (GQ). Her work has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review Daily, The New Yorker, Vogue & Harper’s Bazaar. She once tried to stop Brexit with 600 croissants.
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Must-Read Novels of Summer 2026
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Dreamland
by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Rosa Rankin-Gee's eerie second novel is set in a near-future England in which the south coast is in the process of being claimed by rising sea levels. This looming crisis serves as a backdrop to a tenderly-told love story between Chance, a teenage girl living in poverty in crumbling Margate, and Franky, a middle-class humanitarian worker with a mysterious past. Dreamland is currently in the process of being adapted into a six-part series by the BBC.
Interviews with Rosa Rankin-Gee
The Best Near-Future Dystopias, recommended by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Books featuring dystopian or post-apocalyptic themes offer us an opportunity to study human nature outside of the normal structure of society, says Rosa Rankin-Gee, author of the acclaimed novel Dreamland. Here, she recommends five other books featuring a near-future dystopia, all of which explore a societal or cultural unraveling through beautiful prose.
Interviews where books by Rosa Rankin-Gee were recommended
Must-Read Novels of Summer 2026, selected by Cal Flyn
All of summer stretching out before you, and still searching for a brilliant new novel to read in the sun? You are not alone. We asked Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn to write a round-up of books that should be on your to-be-read list this season.
