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  • Published: 30 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473582286
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

The End of the World Running Club

The ultimate race against time post-apocalyptic thriller




The Number One Bestseller and featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club

A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans of The End of the F*cking World.
'A real find' STEPHEN KING

When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts.

No one knows this more than Edgar Hill. 550 miles away from his family, he must push himself to the very limit to get back to them, or risk losing them forever...

His best option is to run.
But what if your best isn’t good enough?

The Number One race-against-time bestseller as featured on Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 Book Club

*The sequel, The Survivors’ Club, is now available to pre-order*

What readers are saying - over 350 5* reader reviews:

‘Difficult to put down and impossible to forget’

‘A real page turner’

‘An absolute joy of a read’

‘Gripping and entertaining all the way through’

‘Exciting right from the beginning and it left me wanting more’

‘This book gets better with every page turn’

  • Published: 30 January 2020
  • ISBN: 9781473582286
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

About the author

Adrian J Walker

Adrian J Walker was born in the bush suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the mid '70s. After his father found a camper van in a ditch, he renovated it and moved his family back to the UK, where Adrian was raised.

Ever since he can remember, Adrian has been interested in three things: words, music and technology, and when he graduated from the University of Leeds, he found a career in software. His novel The End of the World Running Club, a post-apocalyptic running fable about hope, love and endurance, was a Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club choice.

He lives in Aberdeen with his wife and two children. To find out more visit: http://www.adrianjwalker.com/

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Praise for The End of the World Running Club

Ridiculously gripping straight from the start

Jenny Colgan

A page-turning thriller with a pace as relentless as the characters' feet hitting the pavement. A deft look into the mind of a man who needs the near-destruction of the world to show him what truly matters

Laura Lam, author of False Hearts

A really fun, engaging, exciting, and compassionate take on a familiar scenario: the apocalypse ... Highly recommended

David Owen, Carnegie longlisted author of Panther

Will thrill and delight ... a terrifically well-observed, haunting and occasionally harrowing read

Starburst

Compulsively readable

SFX

a book that you won’t ever want to reach the final page of. All good things must come to an end but Walker’s tale of courage and fortitude will linger on

Culturefly

Brilliant ... superb to the end

Lucy Mangan

Extraordinary

Simon Mayo, Radio 2 Book Club

A compelling read

The Financial Times

... what sets this novel apart is Walker's extraordinary emotional articulacy

The Sun

This is a wonderful book. The author brings an almost cozy domesticity to the end of the world, as his protagonist struggles to come to terms with what it means to be a husband and a father as the world falls apart around him. The central journey is a glorious roar of defiance against the brutality of a broken world and a shattered society, woven together with a lament for things lost and things left undone and unsaid. Adrian Walker breaks your heart in unexpected ways, and leaves you with a sense of stories still to be told. An end-of-the-world tale that is anything but an ending

Anne Corlett, author of The Space Between the Stars

A fresh and frighteningly real take on what "the end" might be . . . quite an exciting and nerve-wracking ‘run’, with characters you believe in and feel for.

New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon

This is an uplifting, exciting and often humorous yarn about camaraderie, endurance and redemption. Throughout, Walker nicely evokes the agony and exhilaration of distance running.

The Times

A real find

Stephen King