Books by Alex Garland

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Beach by Alex Garland, read by Alfie Allen. The classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

In less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husband s car, and thirteen-year-old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street-kids dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide . . .

What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet?

A young man is brutally assaulted in an underground train. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, until he starts noticing strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience.