The Second Sleep: the Sunday Times #1 bestselling novel Audiobook (Free)

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‘A completely absorbing, page-turning narrative where the writer pulls us ever deeper in to the imaginative world he has created.’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Harris is rightly praised seeing that the master of the smart thriller. Genuinely fascinating, wonderfully conceived and completely without preaching, it probes the nature of history, of collective storage and forgetting, and exposes the fragility of modern civilisation.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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1468. A priest, Christopher Fairfax, comes in a remote Exmoor community to conduct the funeral of his forerunner. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – cash, fragments of glass, human bone fragments – that your old parson used to collect. Do his obsession with days gone by result in his death?

Seeing that Fairfax is drawn deeper into the isolated community, everything he believes – about himself, his trust and the annals of his world – is tested to devastation.

‘[Harris] requires us on an exciting ride while providing up serious food for thought . I doubt there’s a living article writer who’s better at concurrently making readers’ adrenaline pump while their brains whirr.’ Weekend EXPRESS

‘A truly unexpected future-history thriller. Fabulous, actually.’ EVENING STANDARD

‘The book’s real power lies in its between-the-lines warning our embrace of the internet represents some type of sleepwalk into oblivion. It’s a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells may have been very pleased.’ DAILY MAIL

‘Harris’ latest function intelligently warps traditional fiction and tackles issues of religion, technology as well as the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering normally as you are page-turning.’ HERALD

‘A brilliantly imaginative thriller’ READER’S DIGEST