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Timberdark

Darren Charlton
Chapters (44)
  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Dedication
  4. Praise for Wranglestone
  5. Epigraph
  6. Map
  7. Part I
  8. Prologue
  9. 1
  10. 2
  11. 3
  12. 4
  13. 5
  14. 6
  15. 7
  16. 8
  17. Part II
  18. 9
  19. 10
  20. 11
  21. 12
  22. 13
  23. 14
  24. 15
  25. 16
  26. 17
  27. 18
  28. 19
  29. 20
  30. 21
  31. 22
  32. 23
  33. 24
  34. 25
  35. 26
  36. Part III
  37. 27
  38. 28
  39. 29
  40. 30
  41. 31
  42. 5 Years Later
  43. Acknowledgements
  44. About the Author
Cover: Timberdark by Darren Charlton

Title Page

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Praise for Wranglestone
  4. Epigraph
  5. Map
  6. Part I
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter One
  9. Chapter Two
  10. Chapter Three
  11. Chapter Four
  12. Chapter Five
  13. Chapter Six
  14. Chapter Seven
  15. Chapter Eight
  16. Part II
  17. Chapter Nine
  18. Chapter Ten
  19. Chapter Eleven
  20. Chapter Twelve
  21. Chapter Thirteen
  22. Chapter Fourteen
  23. Chapter Fifteen
  24. Chapter Sixteen
  25. Chapter Seventeen
  26. Chapter Eighteen
  27. Chapter Nineteen
  28. Chapter Twenty
  29. Chapter Twenty-One
  30. Chapter Twenty-Two
  31. Chapter Twenty-Three
  32. Chapter Twenty-Four
  33. Chapter Twenty-Five
  34. Chapter Twenty-Six
  35. Part III
  36. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  37. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  38. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  39. Chapter Thirty
  40. Chapter Thirty-One
  41. Five Years Later
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. About the Author
  44. Copyright

Dedication

For Joseph.
My home.

And in loving memory of Claus.
(1976 - 2002)

Praise for Wranglestone

Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Older Readers

Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize

Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award

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“Part zombie epic […] part gay love story […] a sophisticated new voice.”

The Times, Best Books of the Year

“Zombie thrills combine with an achingly tender gay love story”

Observer

“Sublime and affecting”

Starburst

“Fresh and compelling and totally immersive”

Sunday Irish Independent

“Thrilling zombie epic meets gorgeous gay love story. The world-building is deft, the writing poetic … this is very special!”

William Hussey, author of Hideous Beauty

“A bucolic, intimate twist on the zombie/post-apocalyptic story”

David Owen, author of Grief Angels

“Charlton’s fantastic debut […] is both a page-turning zombie thriller and a beautifully drawn gay love story”

iNews

“Wranglestone is terrifyingly good”

Attitude

“A complete treasure of a book – page-turning, stunning writing, an extraordinary setting and with a gorgeous love story at its heart”

Lisa Heathfield, author of I Am Not A Number

“Wranglestone by Darren Charlton holds an extra special place in my little gay heart”

George Lester, author of Boy Queen

Epigraph

‘The mountains are calling
and I must go.’

John Muir

Map

Part I

Prologue

Some communities had islands to protect them from the Dead. Others had vast glaciers and mountains. Over in Arizona, where long, black roads shimmered like liquorice sticks out across the desert, the National Park Escape Programme was without rival. Seen from space, Grand Canyon looked like the Earth had been torn wide at the skin. It was as violent a wound as a bloody gash to the bone. Only it was a river, not a blade, that had quietly cut a mile deep into the rock over millions of years, giving those survivors living in the valley below a maze of walls to hide in and a fall from the top that made bone dust of the Dead.

To the north, Yellowstone had none of those things to protect it. The land was flat and unguarded and would have been prone to ravage from its wandering herds if it weren’t for one thing. The earth held a secret.