HALF THE WORLD IS DARK. ONLY SHE CAN SAVE THE LIGHT. A high-concept, utterly original debut thriller which envisages a world on the edge of catastrophe, perfect for readers who loved Robert Harris' Fatherland, Station 11 , and The Wall by John Lanchester.
HALF THE WORLD IS DARK. ONLY SHE CAN SAVE THE LIGHT. A high-concept, utterly original debut thriller which envisages a world on the edge of catastrophe, perfect for readers who loved Robert Harris' Fatherland, Station 11, and The Wall by John Lanchester.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____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 . . .____'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.”
I read this hungrily ... Its intelligence and bravura characterization will have you turning page after page. A fabulous achievement. STEPHEN FRY
A brilliantly clever thriller from a brilliantly clever writer. -- Richard Osman
Murray should be commended for going into the nitty-gritty of how his post-disaster society functions[…] What really distinguishes the book, though, is the creative energy of its world-building: it demonstrates the virtue of using the future as a playground for the imagination rather than trying to second-guess it. Telegraph: the best thrillers and crime fiction of 2020
A taut, thrilling runaround... The Last Day is an impressive dystopian techno-thriller. Murray paints a grim picture of a draconian isolationist Britain, with some vivid descriptions of a much-changed London, and the novel’s climax has a neat twist. Guardian Books of the Month
A brilliant debutwhich blends apocalyptic drama with a tale of espionage, keeping readers on tenterhooks […] Fans of Robert Harris will love it. Daily Express
A stunningly original thriller set in the world of tomorrow that will make you think about what’s happening today. HARLAN COBEN
A fresh take on the dystopian thriller, to say it’s gripping is an understatement - I cancelled all my weekend plans to finish it SARA PASCOE
[A]n atmosphere reminiscent of PD James’s dystopian classic The Children of Men and alternative history thrillers such as Len Deighton’s SS-GB. As with those novels, The Last Day investigates the “boiled frog” nature of totalitarianism, with Hunter Murray imagining what Britain succumbing to it would look and feel like. The result is a beautifully realised and thought provoking-thriller. The Times, Thriller of the Month
Dark, believable and brilliantly written JENNY COLGAN
A thrilling page-turner, and a reminder to treasure our sunsets and sunrises while we still have them. I couldn’t put this book down! Christina Dalcher, author of VOX
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).
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