Twenty one people remain alive in a Swiss Hotel after multiple cities, including Washington, are destroyed by nuclear bombs. They have no means of communication with the outside world and no way of knowing if they are the only survivors. Then they discover the body of a girl and the post apocalyptic survivalist story also […]
Zombie/Post Apocolytic/Supernatural
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Devastating and horrifying, but brilliant. Best to read it before you have children.
The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
I’m not normally a fan of post apolocolyptic zombie novels, but this one is so good. Technically they’re not zombies; they are ‘hungries’. Twenty years ago, humanity was infected by a variant of fungus that causes people to lose their minds and eat human flesh, thereby becoming hungries. The small number of remaining humans are […]
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
This disturbing little thriller will make you believe in ghosts again. Try not to be alone when you’re reading it at night. Seriously. It has all the best elements of Sigurdardottir’s writing; an isolated village in Iceland, a mystery with something deeply sinister at its core, and people being picked off one by one. Beautiful and […]