It is the year 2250 and Stephen Williams finds himself in a Great Britain overrun by zombies and whose green belt land has all been concreted over.He is devoid of nearly all hope until he meets a nine-year-old girl called Julie Mayberry and together they try to survive in a land where their fellow humans are all but extinct. It is a struggle to the death against the zombies whose relentless pursuit of Stephen and Julie leads them both to learn of the final hypocrisy that lies beneat...

How did it come to this thought Stephen Williams as he huddled amongst the evergreen and deciduous trees of Western Park shivering in the cold, unable even to light a fire for fear of alerting the zombies all around him to his whereabouts. If only we had had some border controls, maybe they could have stopped the zombies...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYNew York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton’s riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with clear-eyed scientific and social extrapolation to create a future that seems not merely plausible but inevitable.A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved its energ...

Billions died during the global civil war that followed the outbreak. Anarchy took grip. Chaos ruled. The world collapsed. In Britain, the evacuation failed. Nowhere was safe from the undead.Four months after the outbreak Bill Wright has found safety in a ruined Abbey in southern England, but he is still alone. All he has for company are the files sent to him by his shadowy contact, Sholto. On those, he believes he has found the origins of the undead, and the vast ...

Nations collapsed. The undead rose. Not everyone died.There is a safe haven, so they are told, in a small village on the Irish coast. But before they can go there, Bill and Kim must travel back into London to rescue Annette and Daisy. Then they will have to battle their way through an infected England to a rendezvous in Wales. But even if they can get the children to safety, Bill’s journey won’t be over. When he is told of the sanctuary awaiting them, he also disco...

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life.Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful Warden. Unfortunately, he's also on the run but Joanne and her classic Mustang are racing hard to find him - because there's some bad weather closing in fast.

Sun, sea . . . and a summer of endless possibilities.From the glossy streets of Chelsea to a tiny Greek hideaway, Faith Cotton is about to have a summer that she will never forget!Young, bored housewife, Faith Cotton, escapes her stifling Chelsea life when her husband suggests they decamp to a tiny island in the Greek Cyclades for the summer.He works for the foreign office and has the inside scoop on ‘the Greek situation’. Europe is pouring money into Greece and, fa...

From the award-winning author of PIECES OF YOU comes this enthralling love story, guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and dream upon a star…What if your first love was your only love?When Molly is diagnosed with a life changing illness, it feels like her whole world has come crashing down. She hopes the news will make her marriage to Sam stronger. But why does Molly always call best friend Ed in a crisis?Ed. The very same Ed that Molly fell in love with at a party whe...

The outbreak began in New York. Soon it had spread to the rest of the world. People were attacked, infected, and they died. Then they came back. Nowhere is safe from the undead.As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe, Britain was quarantined. The press was nationalised, martial law, curfews and rationing were implemented. It wasn’t enough. An evacuation was planned. The inland towns and cities of the UK would be evacuated to defensive enclaves being bui...

THE HIT BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE NEW FILM‘After the world died we all sort of drifted back to school. After all, where else was there to go?’Lee Keegan’s fifteen. If most of the population of the world hadn’t just died choking on their own blood, he might be worrying about acne, body odour and girls. As it is, he and the young Matron of his boarding school, Jane Crowther, have to try and protect their charges from cannibalistic gangs, religious fanatics, a bu...

After escaping a secret military complex amid the zombie apocalypse, B roams the streets of a very changed London, dirty and dangerous and eerily quiet, except for the shuffling of the undead. Once again, B must find a way to survive against brain-eating zombies --and now also against those who have seized control of the city. With danger lurking around every corner and no one to trust, B must decide whether to join the creepy Mr. Dowling in exchange for his protection. When everyone aroun...

Locus Award Finalist: On a mysterious road built by aliens, a space trucker tries to outrun dangerous pursuers.Independent space trucker Jake McGraw, accompanied by his father, Sam, who inhabits the body of the truck itself, his "starrig," picks up a beautiful hitchhiker, Darla, and a trailer‑load of trouble. One of the best of the indies, Jake knows a few tricks about following the Skyway, which connects dozens, or maybe hundreds, of planets—nobody knows how many a...