Out today from Titan Books is Nod by Adrian Barnes, and as promised when we kicked off our giveaway for the novel (just a few hours are left to enter), we have an excerpt from it to share.
Nod is Barnes’ first published work. CLICK HERE to download Chapter 1.
Synopsis:
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they’re dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep, she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole…