- Published: 18 July 2016
- ISBN: 9780241976562
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $24.99
The Beach
- Published: 18 July 2016
- ISBN: 9780241976562
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $24.99
Fresh, fast-paced, compulsive and clever
Nick Hornby
A gripping adventure, and a fascinating jigsaw
The Times
A white-knuckle ride into the heart of darkness
Sunday Times
Lord of the Flies and The Magus lurk at the roots of this novel, but Garland reshapes them with panache into something terrifyingly new
Mail on Sunday
A mesmerising, knuckle-clenching read
Maxim
Winningly compulsive, brilliantly conceived
Q
Garland's prose is stunningly lucid. Addictive and compelling
Spectator
A highly confident debut...this incisive novel may well come to be regarded as a defining text in the history of imaginative travel writing
Daily Telegraph
Alex Garland is writing a brand new kind of adventure novel. His style is dangerously simple yet altogether captivating
Douglas Rushkoff
An exceptional first novel...An action novel that provokes subtle responses, The Beach takes in ideas about man's inevitable progress from noble savage to social breakdown (and) the related tradition of nature versus art
The Times Literary Supplement
Garland has written a powerful and frighteningly believable novel
Company
Precise and speedy prose, with good old-fashioned romantic adventure spiced up with deadpan authorial irony
Guardian