Libreria welcomes Gethan Dick to discuss her haunting debut (and one of Libreria’s Best Books of 2025) Water in the Desert Fire in the Night, a dystopia that begins not with spectacle but with a crack in the city. Opening at Elephant and Castle, the novel follows a young woman and a small band of survivors after a devastating pandemic leaves London eerily emptied. As they travel south toward a rumoured refuge in France, memory, practicality, and fragile hope become tools for survival. Set just after collapse, when the old world is gone but the new one is unclear, Dick’s novel asks a quietly unsettling question: how would we fare when everything we rely on proves only a surface?