At the end of the world, every second counts. No one knows that more than Edgar Hill. As the world crumbles and he loses sight of his wife and children, Ed must push himself to his very limits to find them. As a runner for the last 14 years, I looked forward to reading The End of the World Running Club because I was hoping to read about a runner who uses his formidable skills to get to his family and/or save the world. Faces at the window trying to get in, trying to get to us. One of the square panes of glass in the door broke and a fist came through it. Or men sat in the corner, like me, trying to sleep off the nine pints of strong lager that were still dribbling through an empty stomach.

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This book was a change from most of the running books I've featured for the book club, but I hope there will be more fictional stories coming our way! The BBC Radio 2 Book Club announced on 24 January that its new home is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. Bereits zu Anfang der Erzählung wird im Eltern-Kind-Spieleparadies für alle Männer konstatiert, und damit die Marschrichtung vorgegeben:

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An Aussie who claimed to have once run the breadth of Australia. Needless to say, the big guy didn't believe a word of it. I’m not saying I thought it was a good thing, and I’m not saying I thought it wasn’t tragic. I’m just saying I thought we had it coming. We’d had it coming for a long time.

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When two of the men betray them and abscond with their only vehicle, Ed decides to make the last several hundred miles by running. Suddenly, the air-raid siren stopped. The air around us seemed to lurch in the silence as if we’d all just hurled ourselves over a cliff edge. Edgar Hill is a very flawed human being, but he achieves something remarkable. Would you call him a hero and why/why not?Quite a dark read but with enough glimmers of hope so it's not all doom and gloom... there is a sense of optimism despite the traumatic circumstances. Arthur stopped crying. It was all quiet apart from the wail of the siren outside. Then a door banging, a man shouting, a woman crying, a loud screech of car’s tires as it sped away. I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. Thank you to the author, Adrain J. Walker, and the publisher, Ebury, for this opportunity.

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But Mark and I had turned from the shutters. Jabbar peered up through the slats as well. Far away, we heard a low, nasal drone. It was an ancient sound, like a rusted handle turned on something that had not been used in a long time. A sound that was not supposed to be heard anymore, a sound that belonged in a different century. It began to rise slowly in pitch till it reached and held its hideous, gut-wrenching howl.

Does he succeed? Is it the end of the world as we know it? Ah well, you'll have to read it yourself to discover the answers to these and other questions, but it is a novel which explores self-knowledge, friendship, determination, love, fatherhood, families and the human condition in a post - apocalyptic setting. Oh yes. And running. There's lots of running.

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The words actually caught in my throat. Ridiculous. I felt dizzy, the way you do when you’re a child about to call out for your parents in the night. For the first time in his life, Ed is distraught at being separated from his wife and kids. He needs to get to them, but they’re halfway to Cornwall and he’s in Edinburgh with no cars, diminishing supplies, and only the people with him to rely on. So, what do you do when you have precisely 550 miles of ruined roads, crumbling cities and inhospitable wastelands between you and your family? You start walking. With just a few steadfast companions and a ton of obstacles in his way, Ed’s long journey to the West Country begins. It’s a tough and treacherous mission that Ed soon realises isn’t going to get him to his family on time, and so the end of the world running club is created. MEEEEEEEERRRR, and I almost fell out of bed. The sound still rang in my ears as I blinked in the low light and listened to my heart struggling for calm.No!” said Jabbar, stepping out and squashing me against the wall with his shoulder. “Get out of my house! Get out!” Asteroids are striking Earth, the end of the world is near, and Edgar Hill is on the wrong side of the country. urn:lcp:endofworldrunnin0000walk:epub:4e914fff-ff5b-4416-a29a-646b7b71c609 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier endofworldrunnin0000walk Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7hr2sb6m Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781785032660