Jule Owen

At the end of the twenty-fifth century, two young women in search of their history, uncover dangerous secrets and create some of their own.Elidir is not on any official map. A dome protects its citizens from the raging storms and deadly heat outside. High walls protect them from the desert people, known as the Non-Grata. In this secret city, deep beneath a mountain, lie the remains of Western civilisation. Here, Isobel, Fallow, rebel, and ongoing disappointment to her parents, forms an unlikely friendship with Imogen Llewelyn, Pure, a descendant of a long-dead warlord, and daughter of the Chief of police. Together they solve a 400-year-old murder and uncover more than they ever bargained for.

Outcast, liberator of the non-people, a mystery to herself.In a world so desperate that people trade their children for food, a girl, cast out from her city for an unknown crime becomes an unlikely hero. It is 2472. The British Isles have been transformed by climate change into a desert archipelago. The wealthy and privileged have retreated to high-tech walled cities. Those beyond the walls are known as the Non-Grata. They live a precarious, hand-to-mouth existence, surviving on the "charity" of the cities. In return, these non-people must pay a Quota, a tax paid in human life. Specifically, they give the rich something their money cannot buy: children.Isobel Twelvetrees has been put outside the walls of her city and left to die in the lethal heat for a crime she cannot remember committing. She was saved by someone or something, but when she wakes, the only companion she has is a dog with odd coloured eyes. When she learns the terrible truth about the plight of the Non Grata, she turns into a new kind of warrior. As she crosses continents with the threadbare armies of the Non Grata, in a deadly race against time to destroy the Quota and right historic wrongs, she starts to uncover the truth about herself and what she left behind.

A door in time. A visitor from the future. A girl determined to save the boy she loves.The third book in the mind-twisting dystopian time travel series, 'The House Next Door'Mathew Erlang travels north through an England overrun by violence and sickness. Accompanied by a new friend, he finally makes it to his grandmother's house, but all is not as it seems in this childhood place of safety. Meanwhile, Clara makes an uncanny pact with Mathew's peculiar neighbour and finally learns the truth about Mr. Lestrange.˃˃˃ Author Q&AQ: What made you want to write YA time travel fiction?I love books like the Hunger Games and Divergent. I also love books like Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking and Chuck Wendig's Heartland Trilogy. They are all exciting, deeply engaging dystopian action adventure series. They all make you stop and think. So I wanted to write something similar. But I've been reading about futurology and climate change for years and they have seeped into my subconscious. I liked the idea of exploring possible futures based on the non-fiction I'd be reading. To do that I needed Mathew Erlang, my main character, to be able to jump forward into the future to see how things turn out. Q: Why specifically write teen dystopia? Why not write for adults?I'm not sure I am specifically writing just for teens. I read a lot of young adult fiction and I'm certainly not a teen But when I built the world and the much bigger story that Mathew's tale exists in, he happened to turn out to be a teenaged boy at the beginning of his series. Q: You describe your books at cli-fi. What does that mean?Cli-fi means climate change fiction. It's a spin on sci-fi, of course, but it's a type of dystopian science fiction or speculative fiction that specifically deals with the impact of climate change on the people of the future.Q: Why did you want to write about climate change?It's the big issue of our times and the biggest challenge we've faced as a civilisation. There's a huge scientific consensus about the fact that climate change is man made and that it is likely to massively disrupt our lives in the future, but lots of people don't believe in it. I read an article a while ago in The New Scientist (which is my favourite magazine) saying that the climate change lobby needs more artists and writers to go and spread the message. Frighteningly, young people, who are likely to suffer the most in the future, are particularly not engaging with the issue.Q: Is this it for Mathew? Are there no more stories?This is the last book in the 'House Next Door' trilogy, but I am already working on the first book in a new series. It tells the story of the Kind and the Lamplighter, characters that appeared at the end of 'The Boy Who Fell from the Sky'. Plus, I don't think I'm quite done with Mathew yet. We'll have to see. Scroll up and grab a copy today.