The Last Day: The gripping must-read thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author
Andrew Hunter Murray
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Half the world is in darkness. Only she can save the light . . . the post-apocalyptic bestselling read.
'A brilliant near-future thriller and a really cracking read' Richard Osman
'Will keep you gripped to the very last page' C.J. Tudor
'Wonderful ... the best future-shock thriller for years.' Lee Child
'A stunningly original thriller' Harlan Coben
'A beautifully realised and thought-provoking thriller' The Times
'Intriguing and unusual' Sunday Times
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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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'Reminiscent of Robert Harris's high-concept conspiracy thrillers' Financial Times
'I read this hungrily ... A fabulous achievement.' Stephen Fry
'Inventive, richly detailed world-building' Telegraph
'A tantalizing, suspenseful odyssey of frustration, deceit, treachery, torture, hope, despair and ingenious sleuthing' Washington Post
'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
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Reviews for The Last Day: The gripping must-read thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author
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