REISSUES

Pick of the paperbacks this month: AMERICA city ( , 6 September, Corvus), the latest by Chris Beckett, writer of the Dark Eden series. Set in a 22nd century USA where climate change is making the southern states and coasts uninhabitable, it follows a liberal British publicist on the team of a right-wing politician. We said: “At times it feels like a series of ruminations on politics, voiced by whichever characters happen to be wandering through. But Beckett never loses sight of his story, which is compelling.” Let The Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s latest, i Am Behind you ( , 23 August, riverrun) – the first in a trilogy – sees a bunch of holidaymakers waking to discover that everything but their caravans and cars has disappeared, with grass stretching in every direction… We said: “There are some gruesome sequences, and the cast of characters is well worth getting to know… but anyone who spent Lost’s finale turning the air blue may find themselves experiencing a familiar sinking feeling.” Finally, Nick Clark Windo’s The Feed ( , out now, Headline) is set to be adapted for TV by Virgin Media. It follows a bunch of survivors after the catastrophic collapse of the titular service, a supercharged extrapolation of social media which provided quasi-telepathic communication. We said: “The way the book reiterates the same points can frustrate, but its post-apocalyptic landscape is evocatively sketched.”