Hive

Hive
April Doyle
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Paperback
h198 x 127mm - 338pg
28 Jan 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781913913779
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Near-future Britain. Climate change has led to food shortages and civil unrest. Pollinating insects are in steep decline. Commercial bee farmer Victor Martin travels around the farms of Kent with his hives to pollinate fruit trees and crops. Local research entomologist Dr Annie Abrams is devastated when she' s ordered to give up her captive bee colonies - her life' s work - to join forces with Victor and ensure a harvest. But the bees are dying. Their only hope seems to be an experimental alternative to insect pollination: robot pollinators called nanodrones. But why does the drone designer seem so familiar? And who is behind the shadowy organisation intent on sabotaging their vital work? Can Annie and Victor win their battle to save the bees. . . or is it too late?
April Doyle is a writer, tutor and editor who lives in rural Kent with her husband and two sons. She has been teaching creative writing to adults since 2012. April' s short stories have been published in women' s magazines in the UK and Australia, and her short story Elsewhere was published in an anthology Tales From Elsewhere in 2016. Her short story Rise on the Wings was longlisted for the 2019 Mslexia Short Story competition. Hive was shortlisted for the 2019 Exeter Novel Prize.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913913779
Published: 28 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Book Guild
Publisher: The Book Guild
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 338

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