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Zombie Britannica
by
Thomas Emson
Cassie's day as a guide at Westminster Abbey begins badly when zombies storm into the building and eat the tourists. Carrie escapes - but finds London choked with the undead. She has no idea where they came from, no idea how to stop them - all she knows is she has to race through dangerous, gore-soaked streets and find her daughter. And her day doesn't get any better...
Hardcover, 350 pages
Published
August 1st 2010
by Snowbooks
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I didn't mean to read another Emson right after Prey, but saw Zombie Britannica on a UK shelf while on holiday, and snatched it up. With this one, Emson sets out his stall right away with a genuine quote from an actual scientist: "An outbreak of zombies will result in the collapse of civilisation, with every human infected or dead...". That's pretty much how the book proceeds. The zombies themselves aren't really the story here. Instead, they're a vicious backdrop for the end of the world, a dev...more
Zombie Britannica is a novel of Fiction by Thomas Emson from Snowbooks.
Book Blurb:
In 2009, Canadian researchers warned that a zombie plague would wipe out civilization...unless we were ready -
We Weren’t
As temperatures reach unprecedented levels, the dead rise - and eat the living. There is no warning. There is no time to prepare. And with tens of thousands dead or infected, another waking nightmare comes to terrorize the survivors -
The undead’s victims now rise up, a new wave of zombies hungry...more
Book Blurb:
In 2009, Canadian researchers warned that a zombie plague would wipe out civilization...unless we were ready -
We Weren’t
As temperatures reach unprecedented levels, the dead rise - and eat the living. There is no warning. There is no time to prepare. And with tens of thousands dead or infected, another waking nightmare comes to terrorize the survivors -
The undead’s victims now rise up, a new wave of zombies hungry...more
Well, there's absolutely no build-up with this book, we're straight into the zombie flesh-munching action from the word go, and it never really lets up. We are told the stories of a few survivors from various locations around the UK, some of whom are connected with one another.
Characterisations were wonderful, some characters were utterly loathsome, some flawed, but who ultimately redeem themselves through heroics and self-sacrifice, others well-intentioned but weak, and some actually more terr...more
Characterisations were wonderful, some characters were utterly loathsome, some flawed, but who ultimately redeem themselves through heroics and self-sacrifice, others well-intentioned but weak, and some actually more terr...more
This is the first book I have read by this author and I must say if this is anything to go by I will definately be reading the rest of Emsons novels!
As previous reviews have stated the book throws you straight into the action. There is no chance to know the characters in their normal lives before the zombie apocalypse. The story follows survivors who are dotted in various locations around Britain, their stories intertwine at points and each group have traumatic experiences and try to survive th...more
As previous reviews have stated the book throws you straight into the action. There is no chance to know the characters in their normal lives before the zombie apocalypse. The story follows survivors who are dotted in various locations around Britain, their stories intertwine at points and each group have traumatic experiences and try to survive th...more
Zombie Britannica is a rip roaring read which moves at a fast pace. The characters, although sometimes being annoying, seem to be well characterised in the situation that they are in. It is well written and an extreme page turner.
The characters do have a thread that does connect them all which was a nice touch and the apocolyptic view of the book is well handled.
It is a zombie book and although I found Skarlet to be a better rounded book, this book kept me glued through its 400+ pages causing...more
The characters do have a thread that does connect them all which was a nice touch and the apocolyptic view of the book is well handled.
It is a zombie book and although I found Skarlet to be a better rounded book, this book kept me glued through its 400+ pages causing...more
Okay, wouldn't call it a best-seller. But then, I don't think I am the target audience. It was really gorey, and the sex scene could've been written better (or left out all-together), but other than that fairly good book. I liked the author's take on the way people would react, very realistic! Really quick read too, easy and fun. I cringed in a few places, but I think that's more because while I love the zombie I'm not so keen on the graphic gore he described. It's more a book for my brother, wh...more
I found the book fantastic from the start with the survivors struggling to stay alive and not get eaten by the zombies. It's a very well paced novel and I couldn't put it down. The author could have done a bit more research into one part of the story however and that is the part when Carrie and Sawyer are on the railway and a train speeds past them with Zombies clambering over the outside of the carriages. Owing for when the book was published, the trains used at the time meant that no one or an...more
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Really do not know what i was thinking here, usually zombies freak me out in a big way but for some reason (despite being pretty descriptive) this book had very little effect on me. Kinda trashy but not painfully so, it was middle of the road to be blatantly honest. But i suppose if your hard pushed you could do worse.
What a cracking book! I was hooked after the first few pages, you get thrown right on into the horror The pace is fast and I chomped up chapter after chapter, I had to consciously slow down so I didn't miss anything! Never read a zombie novel, nor horror really and can't wait to get my teeth into another Emson book..off to the library tomorrow:)
One of my most favourite zombie/England themed books out there. So graphic and detailed locations across Britain makes you really picture where things are taking place!!
Grimy, blood-soaked, relentless and hopeless, but shot through with portrayals of humanity at it's best and worst. Emson's writing, as always, holds you and pulls you in, and excels at describing the bleakest of horrors unflinchingly. Brutal and bleak and bloody but a high point in the zombie novel genre.
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Monika Mckay
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AWESOME!
A bit sad about the ending! No spoiler alert!
A bit sad about the ending! No spoiler alert!
Not a book to read if you like your endings cut and dried!
Aug 16, 2012
Tara
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loved this book
The repetitive use of the word Zombie was extremely annoying.
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Gore-tastic! Thankgod for the British zombie novel: and this one's one of the best! From the first few lines you're thrust head first into an apocalypse of the undead and held there by the throat till the very last page!
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Thomas was born in Bangor, Wales, in 1966, and raised on Anglesey, the island at the northern tip of Wales. He lives in Kent under another name with his wife, the author and journalist, Marnie Summerfield Smith.
It was Stephen King's vampire novel Salem's Lot that fired his ambition to be a writer.
He was a journalist for more than 20 years, working for local, regional, and national papers as a repo...more
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It was Stephen King's vampire novel Salem's Lot that fired his ambition to be a writer.
He was a journalist for more than 20 years, working for local, regional, and national papers as a repo...more
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