1. End of Days
As the world's richest tech CEOs get the secret news that the world is about to end, they prepare to head to safety, in a new novel from the prize-winning author of The Power.
An electrifying new novel from the author of The Power.
Set in the very near future, a future we could be heading to fast, this is the story of secret bunkers, private weather and fearsome weaponry. It鈥檚 also the story of an audacious heist in which the future of the world is at stake.
Today: three tech billionaires, the wealthiest people on the planet, receive a secret alert that the world is about to end - though not, perhaps for them, if their carefully laid plans work out...
Writer: Naomi Alderman is a novelist, short-story writer and game designer who was named one of Granta鈥檚 20 Best Young Writers in 2013. She is the author of Disobedience, which won the 2006 Orange Prize for New Writers, and the recipient of the Sunday Times Young Writer of The Year award in 2007. Her novel, The Power, won the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017.
Reader: Ell Potter
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer Justine Willett
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