Laline Paull

Born into the lowest class of society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee. While mutant bees are usually destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, and then becomes a forager, before finally finding her way into the Queen's inner sanctum. But Flora's instinct to serve is overshadowed by a desire...

The Arctic sea ice has melted and the passengers of the Vanir have come seeking a polar bear, but what they find is a dead body… It is Tom Harding who was lost in an accident three years ago. But as the inquest into Tom's death begins, the choices he made are put on the stand.

Ea has always felt like an outsider. She suffers from a type of deafness that means she cannot master the spinning rituals that unite her pod of spinner dolphins. When tragedy strikes her family and Ea feels she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave.

As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere, from lurking predators to strange objects floating in the water. But just as she is coming to terms with her solitude, a chance encounter with a group of arrogant bottlenoses will irrevocably alter the course of her life.