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

Andrew Hunter Murray

Feb 2020 · Random House

About this ebook

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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

Ratings and reviews

a great plot for a novel, clearly a debut book but it's fast, easy reading and I love the setting off this book on an earth locked with one side facing the sun.

This is a good read with an intriguing dystopian premise. Ultimately however I felt that the ending was disappointing.

An interesting read, gripping throughout. would be interested in a follow-up book.

About the author

Andrew Hunter Murray is a scriptwriter and senior researcher for BBC2's QI. He co-hosts the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, which has had 300 million downloads and toured the UK, Europe and USA. He also writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine and hosts the Eye's podcast, Page 94. His first novel, The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020.