The Suicide Club

A riveting and timely debut novel about teenage disaffection and its deadly consequences.

Rhys Thomas shakes concepts of "normality" to the core. It is a challenge indeed for an author to capture authentic teenage dialogue, and [this is] compelling subject matter.

Something of a SECRET HISTORY set among 15 year-olds...A riveting and often moving read...this is the best of its type that I've read in a long while. I'll be very interested to see what Thomas writes next.

Rhys Thomas lives in Wales. He is twenty-nine years old. THE SUICIDE CLUB is his first novel. For more information visit his website: www.thesuicideclub.com

Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid, Freddy, steps in and saves Craig's life, and for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible. 
 
Freddy is like nobody Richie has ever met. Dark, sardonic and dangerous, he gives flight to Richie's imagination, introducing him to a way of life he'd never thought possible. But when a night-time prank goes gut-wrenchingly wrong, Richie begins to question Freddy's motives, and all too soon he finds himself committed to a sinister pact, with inescapably tragic consequences. It's true that Freddy saved a life - but could he take one, too? 
 
With great wit and an unflinching eye for the muddle and drama of adolescence, The Suicide Club is a pitch-perfect portrait of teenage disaffection that sets boy against boy, imagination against reason - and, ultimately, life against death.

Rhys Thomas

Thomas explores some promising premises... a brooding atmosphere of fear permeates his novel in a constant drizzle of menace

Thomas effectively details the breakdown of established codes of behaviour and the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink... a gripping story

This bleak scary and frequently moving novel has a lot of life in it

Thomas shakes concepts of 'normality' to the core. It is a challenge indeed for an author to capture authentic teenage dialogue... compelling subject matter

A riveting and often moving read... The narrator's voice compels the narrative - he's a hugely likeable charachter... this is the best of its type that I've read in a long while. I'll be very interested to see what Thomas writes next

Society is on the brink of collapse. The Old World is vanishing, the New World is taking over. There are no rules. Not now that a deadly disease is spreading that causes its victims to turn violent. Previously loving people become murderous. No-one can tell who will turn and who will not. 
 
 
A work of force and dark brilliance - the perfect expression of the terrors of the 21st Century

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Thomas explores some promising premises... a brooding atmosphere of fear permeates his novel in a constant drizzle of menace

Thomas effectively details the breakdown of established codes of behaviour and the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink... a gripping story

This bleak scary and frequently moving novel has a lot of life in it

Thomas explores some promising premises... a brooding atmosphere of fear permeates his novel in a constant drizzle of menace

Thomas effectively details the breakdown of established codes of behaviour and the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink... a gripping story

This bleak scary and frequently moving novel has a lot of life in it

Thomas explores some promising premises... a brooding atmosphere of fear permeates his novel in a constant drizzle of menace

Thomas effectively details the breakdown of established codes of behaviour and the depths of depravity to which humanity can sink... a gripping story

This bleak scary and frequently moving novel has a lot of life in it

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