The Last Day

byAndrew Hunter Murray

The gripping must-read thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author

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A world in darkness. A secret she must bring to light.

'A brilliant near-future thriller and a really cracking read' Richard Osman
'A beautifully realised and thought-provoking thriller' The Times
'Reminiscent of Robert Harris's high-concept conspiracy thrillers' Financial Times
'Wonderful ... the best future-shock thriller for years.' Lee Child
'I read this hungrily ... A fabulous achievement.' Stephen Fry
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2059. The world has stopped turning.

One half suffers an endless frozen night; the other, nothing but burning sun.

Only in a slim twilit region between them can life survive.

In an isolationist Britain clinging on in the twilight zone, scientist Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying man. It contains a powerful and dangerous secret.

One that those in power will kill to conceal . . .
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'Intriguing and unusual' Sunday Times
'Inventive, richly detailed world-building' Telegraph
'A tantalizing, suspenseful odyssey of frustration, deceit, treachery, torture, hope, despair and ingenious sleuthing' Washington Post
'A stunningly original thriller' HARLAN COBEN
'A taut, thrilling runaround' GUARDIAN
'A brilliant debut ... Fans of Robert Harris will love it' DAILY EXPRESS
'To say it's gripping is an understatement' SARA PASCOE
'Murray has crafted something original ... an interesting new twist on a post-apocalyptic tale.' KIRKUS
'Downright impossible to stop reading.' BOOKLIST
'Dark, believable and brilliantly written' JENNY COLGAN
'I couldn't put this book down!' CHRISTINA DALCHER
'The Last Day will keep you gripped to the very last page' C.J. TUDOR

I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterization will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement.

STEPHEN FRY

About Andrew Hunter Murray

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer, broadcaster and comedian. He co-hosts the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, which has received 500 million downloads and toured the world. He also writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine, hosts the Eye's podcast Page 94, presents BBC Radio 4’s Friday night comedy The Naked Week, and spent 14 years writing BBC2’s QI.

His first novel, The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020; his second, The Sanctuary, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month; and his third, A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature.

Andrew lives in London, in a house which largely belongs to someone else (Barclay’s).
Details
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • ISBN: 9781787463615
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 291g
  • Price: £9.99
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