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September Book Club

  • Books on the Hill 1 Holywell Hill St Albans, England, AL1 1ER United Kingdom (map)

For September our booksellers were set the task of choosing a book with the theme of Science. So this month we have decided to read Termush by Sven Holm.

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These book clubs will be held in the shop and are suitable for ages 15+ years.

About the book

The day we came up from the shelters four people were found dead on the steps of the hotel. Welcome to Termush: a luxury coastal resort like no other.

All the wealthy guests are survivors: preppers who reserved rooms long before the Disaster. Inside, they embrace exclusive radiation shelters, ambient music, and lavish provisions; outside, radioactive dust falls on the sculpture park, security men step over dead birds, and a reconnaissance party embarks. Despite weathering a nuclear apocalypse, their problems are only just beginning.

Soon, the Management begins censoring news; disruptive guests are sedated; initial generosity towards Strangers ceases as fears of contamination and limited resources grow. But as the numbers - and desperation - of external survivors increase, admist this moral fallout, they must decide what it means to forge a new ethical code at the end (or beginning?) of the world ... Translated by Sylvia Clayton

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