Troika Books

The city is starving but the farms are bursting with food. Something is very wrong. In the aftermath of a riot turned lethal, city-kid Acker goes looking for law and order. After a farm truck is attacked in the city, farmgirl Dot sets off to find answers. When the two teens meet, they find common ground and a terrifying truth about the future. Someone has to confront reality…what’s left of it.... And it looks like it's them. In this dramatic, thought provoking, and prescient story Mimi and Rachel imagine a world where AI, initially  created to eradicate all human error, has gone disastrously wrong endangering the survival of the human race.

In this debut collection, Shagufta’s poems reflect the things that mean the most to her. There are poems about family, love friendship and faith, Eid, climate change, ninja cats, geraniums, Bath, and Bristol, The Coral Reef, chillis and even shoelaces; all illuminating her vibrant imagination, her passions, and her very distinct voice. Shagufta says, ‘this is a book for young people who are trying to make sense of the world, and for grown-ups who want to remember the magic and mayhem of childhood’.

The last ice cap has melted, and the world is on the brink of collapse. A deadly force - Terra Electrica - has been unleashed. It feeds on electricity. It is infecting civilization. In this chaotic, rapidly changing reality, 12 year-old Mani has lost her family and community to Terra Electrica. Armed only with some ancestral wisdom and a powerful, ancient wooden mask she was never meant to inherit so soon, she suddenly finds herself responsible for the fate of the world. Can Mani piece everything together and harness her newfound powers in time to save humanity?

Electric Life ended with Alara living in London Under and rejecting her life on Estrella. At the beginning of Electric Life: Surge Alara has now lived in Under for six months and she is struggling to adapt. Alara feels claustrophobic, panicked, she dreams of escaping to the surface with her partner, Jay, and travelling in the open but Jay is consumed by Under’s volatile politics. Tensions rise as the city fractures under the pressure of scarcity.  In this dramatic, tense and fast-paced sequel, Alara has to make the most difficult and dangerous decisions of her life to help save Estrella and London Under from mutual and catastrophic destruction.

Nadia Nadim was born in to a prosperous and well connected family in Afghanistan. She is one of five sisters who, with their Mother, had to leave their war torn country in fear of severe repression and even violence against them. Her story  is one of an incredible and dangerous journey across continents to start a new life without fear of war and danger. It’s a story of starting again with nothing and with determination, courage, resilience, and talent, building a new life. Nadia’s story is a story of hope, arriving in a country where she did not understand the language to becoming a world famous football star, a doctor (and surgeon), a linguist, a broadcaster and a role model. In July 2019, Nadia was named UNESCO Champion for Girls and Women's Education.