The Rosewater Insurrection

  • Author Tade Thompson
  • Narrator Bayo Gbadamosi
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Run Time 13 hours and 13 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Science fiction.
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What to expect

The year is 2067. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life - some of it extra-terrestrial.

The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. But the city's alien dome is dying. Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater's independence before it has even begun.

And in the city's quiet suburbs, a woman wakes with no memory of who she is - with memories belonging to something much older and much more alien.

Praise and accolades for Rosewater:

Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fiction
Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019
John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel

'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky

'Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann Leckie

'Mesmerising' M. R. Carey

'An astonishing book. I wish I'd written it' Lauren Beukes


The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption.

Critics Review

  • As strange, vivid and intricate as the alien biosphere at its heart, Rosewater is a fabulous book and Tade Thompson is a writer of enormous heart and talent. Just brilliant

    Dave Hutchinson

  • A fiercely weird, breathtaking biopunk tale of alien invasion, Rosewater is ambitious and smart and very, very cool

    Tasha Suri, author of EMPIRE OF SAND

  • Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no-one

    M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

  • Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!

    Ann Leckie

  • Rosewater asks you uncomfortable questions about what is right, what is wrong, what you’ll tolerate, and what is human

    Mike Brooks

  • A magnificent tour de force, skilfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas

    Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of CHILDREN OF TIME

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