Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

Apocalyptic survival at its most terrifying. The third in the Rats trilogy, international bestseller James Herbert's Domain pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance.The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its...

'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami...

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BOOK AT BEDTIMEWINNER OF THE FICTION PRIZE AT THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2021'A poignant and page turning apocalyptic tale of the foibles, strengths and hopes of humanity. I was gripped, both terrified and emotional throughout...

Y: The Last Man is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a "Y" chromosome. Accompanied by...

In a world ravaged by climate change, a young woman's job of enforcing Britain's one-child policy is compromised when she discovers an illegal sibling on the ministry hit list, and that sibling is hers... `A tightly paced plot set in an all-too...

Millennia ago, Ginny's family farm was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand years hence, it'll all be peacefully underwater. In the matter-of-fact here and now, though, it's a hotbed of lust and resentment, because Ginny's just cheated on her...

From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling debut novel drawing on cutting-edge science and set in a near-future full of dazzling technologies. 2041 and the world as we know it grinds to a halt. Our...

The iconic science fiction vampire novel, adapted into the film starring Will Smith. The last man on earth is not alone . . .Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has...

The Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga is the second novel in the New York Times bestselling series based on the award-winning comic books and blockbuster television show.It is a dangerous world that Lilly lives in. The walking dead...

The Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga is the second novel in the New York Times bestselling series based on the award-winning comic books and blockbuster television show.It is a dangerous world that Lilly lives in. The walking dead...

'[An] amazing futuristic novel . . . Do yourself a favour and a pick up a copy now. It's fantastic' Paul Bettany'I absolutely DEVOURED this book' Aisling Bea'Poignant and perfect' Christina Dalcher, author of Vox'Hugely impressive' David Nicholls, author...

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath...

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights - or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you're Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker - Notes...

Radio Life: a gripping adventure and a riveting political thriller: The Commonwealth, a post-apocalyptic civilisation on the rise, is locked in a clash of ideas with the Keepers . . . a fight which threatens to destroy the world . . . again.When Lilly...

Feared by enemies and friends alike, Elric of Melnibone walks a lonely path among the worlds of the multiverse. The destroyer of his own cruel and ancient race, as well as its final ruler, Elric is the bearer of a destiny as dark and cursed as the...

They took the job to escape the worldThey didn't expect the world to end.Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316317122Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BookshotsPublisher BookshotsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm * 10mm

Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War.Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that...

The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Eos seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The planet's first settlers have disappeared. As Dr James Sinclair digs into the mystery...

"An intelligent, defiant novel, akin to any of Annalee Newitz's writings while also brushing shoulders with some of the great questions of identity and consciousness brought up in the works of William Gibson." -San Francisco Chronicle A groundbreaking...

Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is...

Y: The Last Man, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant, and endlessly surprising...

From Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes the jaw-dropping conclusion of the MOMENTICON duology - an epic adventure like no other!'Remember Simul' - the last words of a dying man, and the key to mankind's survival. Words which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915983091Author Mark BouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

It's November 2020 and the world is freezing over. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, and vast swathes of people make for the warmer south, Dylan is heading to Scotland, once the home of his late mother and grandmother. Twelve-year-old Stella and her...

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.'A pleasure from the first page to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736817964Author Blake NorthcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Heavy Metal EntertainmentPublisher Heavy Metal Entertainment

World's Changing. Doesn't Mean Dredd Has To.Mega-City One, 2082. In two short years, Judge Joseph Dredd has tackled hardened killers and would-be revolutionaries; he's taken beat-downs and bounced back; and he's even arrested his own brother.There's no...

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, the moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a flu pandemic as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny.In an America devastated by a flu...

THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY tells of a society that exists three hundred years after our own has nearly destroyed itself. Now, male warriors are separated from women at an early age and live in garrisons plotting futilely for the battles which must never...

In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts...

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675912Author Huw LemmeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books

'"The Judging Eye" is an incredibly smart and smart ass title to a book that deceives in being Bakker's most straight forward read. How Bakker continues to move Kellhus in mysterious ways is something I can't wait to witness more of' -...

Picking up where Y: The Last Man Compendium One leaves off, Yorick is the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome but just when Dr. Mann discovers the answer to how Yorick and Ampersand survived...

United States of America, 2051 A.D.It has been twenty years since Eustace Fargo's justice bill was passed. There are new weapons on the streets and vast city blocks rising to the sky, as the first human being sets out to visit another star system. New...

The end... is only the beginning. After a mysterious global event known only as 'The Change', six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials - a scientific experiment to restart the...

The team of heroes extracted from their timelines to stop the impending apocalypse didn't think they needed a leader. But they've got one anyway. With their mission in tatters, Miri has been called in to steady the ship. And to focus them on their...

Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A gripping vision of a post-apocalyptic world...'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction''Nation's novel is based on his original cult series...and is all the better for it, being...

Gollancz is very proud to present the author's definitive editions of the saga of Elric, the last emperor of Melnibone. Michael Moorcock and his long-time friend and bibliographer John Davey have collaborated to produce the most consistent and coherent...