A chilling post-apocalyptic tale of how far a father will go to protect his children?from the author of "The Amnesiac"
In a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods, one family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a quiet idyll of music and farming?and young Alice, Finn, and Daisy are grateful for their salvation?until the day a stranger swims ashore. A terrifyingly plausible adventure story, The Island at the End of the World is a mesmerizing novel from an...

Zokar Rizian is a cold-blooded murderer and a self-seeking scavenger. But in committing an unexpected act of friendship, he becomes an unlikely hero. Laura St James is just a pretty young girl trying, with little luck, to be just like everybody else. She does not consider herself a terrorist. But with one impulsive act, all that changes and she becomes an unlikely villain. These two just can't get it right. Things get a whole lot messier when they are forced into an uneasy alliance to protect a planet called Earth, that nobody else thinks is worth saving. The story begins with a dying...