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The gripping and original WINNER of the 2011 Arthur C Clarke award

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A gripping and thrilling novel from the winner of the Arthur C Clarke award

Moxyland

Bridge

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An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.

Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.

Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou.

Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.

A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend

Lauren Beukes' multiverse is thrilling-balancing madness, horror, and a big, bleeding, beating heart that reminds us that we are all connected in the end

I absolutely loved it. This fantastic high-wire act of a novel, accelerating to a heart-stopping climax, is at once a cosmic narrative on a grand scale and a deeply intimate human story. Bravo!

Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street

Bridge spiders out into alternate universes, alternate selves, yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now. It's a humane, thought-provoking puzzle box, and a wildly entertaining novel

Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

Vast in scope and heart, Bridge is both a thrilling exploration of the known universe and an intimate portrayal of a daughter's yearning for her mother. Lauren Beukes has crafted a suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all. A perfect summer read.

Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know

Lauren Beukes takes a story filled with psychedelic drugs, parallel worlds, and neuroscience and makes it also about a complex mother-daughter relationship, full of darkness, light, and longing. This is fun and insane and very moving

Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

What if our dreams are twisted-up memories? What if the Mandela Effect isn't an effect at all? Somewhere between The Lathe of Heaven and Everything Everywhere All at Once is Lauren Beukes' Bridge: it's not just reality that's multifold, it's identity. Bridge challenges our sense of reality, chips away at our conception of the self, and shoves us down a slide of our own paranoia. But, it's Lauren Beukes-this is what she does, isn't it?

Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre

A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book?

Very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished

A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading

Dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning ... it shines

A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers

Bridge's maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. And Bridge has just discovered her big secret. 
 
Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? Jo believed so. 
 
Bridge is so desperate to see her mother again, she's willing to do anything to find her - even search in those other realities. 
 
She just doesn't realise who else she might find there.

Read the mind-bending masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss. 
 
'Addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner' Guardian 'A high-concept page-turner' Herald 'Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers' Spectator 
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THERE ARE INFINITE REALITIES.SHE’S LOOKING FOR ONE . . . 
 Bridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead.Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind.Which is when she finds her big secret: the dreamworm. Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? 
Jo believed so. 
 Bridge is desperate to see her mother again. 
 Will do anything, risk anything. 
 Including search for her in those other realities. 
 What she doesn't know is that others are after Jo's secret. 
 And some believe anyone it touches must be destroyed. 
 Bridge? 
 She just wants to find her mom . . . 
Page-turning and ambitious, BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers. 
 
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'You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.' - The New York Times 
 'An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.' – Guardian 
 'Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.' - SFX

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling South African author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters and Afterland, among other works. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries and are being adapted for film and TV. She's also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London.

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An addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner. With an original take on the many worlds theory.

A high-concept page-turner

Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

Excellent

You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.

Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou.

Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.

A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend

Lauren Beukes' multiverse is thrilling-balancing madness, horror, and a big, bleeding, beating heart that reminds us that we are all connected in the end

I absolutely loved it. This fantastic high-wire act of a novel, accelerating to a heart-stopping climax, is at once a cosmic narrative on a grand scale and a deeply intimate human story. Bravo!

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