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Laura Baggaley

"Books to love and lazy green wins . . ." Monthly young adult fiction recommendations, inspiring eco tips, book news and reader giveaways.

Laura is a writer of fiction for young adults and children. Her latest book is an eco-romance, Dirt, published by Habitat Press. Her forthcoming book, Nourish, was longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and will be published in July 2026.

Her novel, Enough, was one of three finalists in the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition and longlisted for the Times / Chicken House Children’s fiction Competition, and will be published late 2026. Laura is on the editorial team of Bending The Arc, a thrutopia magazine on Substack, which publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.

Laura is a firm believer in ‘imagination activism’ and loves books that ask big questions, usually starting ‘What if . . . ?’ She enjoys the challenge of creating alternative possible futures in her writing, and hopes that by imagining different worlds we’ll be able to build a better one. You can find her at www.laurabaggaley.co.uk