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The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management: Understanding the Supply Chain

Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher and Peter Baker

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The definitive guide to supply chain philosophy, strategy AND the practicalities of logistics and...

Programming for the Puzzled: Learn to Program While Solving Puzzles

Srini Devadas

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This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be...

Private Equity: Opportunities and Risks

H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck and Halil Kiymaz

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During the past few decades, private equity (PE) has attracted considerable attention from...

Our World

Little Mix

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Celebrate Little Mix's first UK number-one album - Glory Days - by reading the full story of the...

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Nov 2, 2020

The Change 1: London: Orbital

Guy Adams | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

7.0

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Intriguing but short

The world as we know it has pretty much ended. One day in the recent past, something appeared in the sky and anyone who saw it, or subsequent recordings of it, either died instantly or went mad gradually.
We meet Howard, who seems to have no memory prior to page 1 of the book, which serves nicely to give us an introduction to how the world changed in ... The Change. He assumes his name is Howard because it is written in the front page of a notebook he finds on his person.
He is moving around the M2 motorway that surrounds London, full of stationary cars (good to see some things didn't change when the world ended) and dead bodies, very reminiscent of early scenes in the Walking Dead.
He soon finds himself taken in by a biker gang who have made themselves a community in a former Welcome Break service station.
The community is attacked by an unusual monster and we follow him and his new best friend, Hubcap, as they try to survive.
The story is intriguing, but quite what happened with The Change, is barely touched on, and neither is Howard's strange amnesia and what he feels he needs to do (travel into London).
The action is exciting, the dialogue well written and the cast of bikers and hangers-on are well crafted. However, the book is so short and largely has no real plot as such, just a series of things happening, and the reader is left wanting more.
Not a childrens book as such, but safely young adult.