The Sanctuary

THERE’S NO WAY BACK FROM PARADISE … The gripping second novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Last Day.

Sanctuary Rock is a perfect place.

A remote island, owned by a wealthy philanthropist who is building a brand-new world on the ruins of the old one.

Ben only came to the island to bring his fiancee Cara home. But when he arrives, he is rapidly seduced by the vision of a better way of life, as described by the charismatic and mysterious Sir John.

Before long, he decides to stay.

But the island holds darker secrets than he could ever have suspected.

Then he learns the only route back to the mainland is about to close for good.

And his own life may be in terrible danger…
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PRAISE . . .

‘Imaginative and intriguing … Sucks you in and doesn’t let you leave until the very last page’ Anthony Horowitz
‘Smoothly written, thought provoking … with an effective shocker of an ending’ Guardian
‘The considerable pleasure of this novel is in the getting from here to there’ The Times

Author Biography

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer, broadcaster and comedian. He co-hosts the award-winning podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, which has received 500 million downloads and toured the world. He also writes jokes and journalism for Private Eye magazine, hosts the Eye’s podcast Page 94, presents BBC Radio 4’s Friday night comedy The Naked Week, and spent 14 years writing BBC2’s QI.

His first novel, The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020; his second, The Sanctuary, was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month; and his third, A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic literature. Andrew lives in London, in a house which largely belongs to someone else (Barclay’s).