The Arrival

Name: The Arrival
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ISBN: 9781787305342

Robin Brookes

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Harvill
14 May 2026

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Adventure; Science fiction

An addictive high-concept edge-of-your seat thriller for fans of Dark Matter and Wrong Place, Wrong Time.

The rules are clear. Find out where you are. Try not to die.

A typical Friday night.

Leo and Viv's weekend starts like any other: a takeaway, a movie and an early night. But when Leo wakes up, he's not in their London flat. He’s naked and alone in an unfamiliar bed, in an anonymous hotel, on the other side of the world.

Until your world turns on its head.

Viv wakes up to a phone ringing. It's Leo and he claims to be in Australia, despite the impossibility of it. An emergency passport is arranged, a return flight to London booked. But before Leo can make it out, there's a flicker in the corner of his vision, and he wakes up in another bed, in another hotel room, in another country.

And now you’re being hunted down . . .

Disoriented, Leo soon discovers he's not alone. Someone with access to groundbreaking technology, and an axe to grind, is beaming a group of people around the globe – stalking them one by one, committing perfect, untraceable murders. As Leo fights to survive, Viv unearths dark secrets from her husband’s past. And the more she learns about Leo, the less she seems to know about him . . .

The Arrival is an unmissable world-hopping high-stakes thriller where you can’t trust anything, even the people you are closest to.

By: Robin Brookes
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781787305342
ISBN 10: 1787305341
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 14 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Robin Brookes grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Brighton, England. She has worked as a playwright, copywriter and bookseller. The idea for The Arrival came about after Robin heard, and misunderstood, the science behind the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics. It is currently in development as a feature film in Hollywood.