Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel

PICADOR, £14.99 (EBOOK, £8.49)

Exploring survival in parallel worlds, Sea of Tranquillity is a scifi mystery unfurling across time, through three very different people. Edwin St Andrew is in newlydiscovered Vancouver Island in 1912, novelist Olive Llewellyn visits Earth on a book tour in 2203, and Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is a detective born hundreds of years later, yet intricately intertwined in the timeline. Existing centuries apart, they are united by a moment of metaphysical disturbance – a feeling of suddenly being in several places at once. Emily St John Mandel is a master of pandemic apocalypse fiction, and her third novel is no exception.