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'A book designed to be more than the sum of its parts, and one that achieves that because love is the thing that binds it together. Vitally fresh' Dominic Nolan

'A trans-dimensional, kaleidoscopic mystery-box of a novel.... wholly and riotously original. Haddon is a mad scientist of genre and his epic is a tour de force.' Peter Ho Davies

It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer.

Finding herself on the run with Jones across America's Southwest, the discoveries awaiting Gracie will undermine everything she knows about the universe. Her story will reveal how scores of lives - an identity-swapping rock star, a mourning lover in ancient China, Nazi hunters in pursuit of a terrible secret, a crazed artist in pre-revolutionary France, an astronaut struggling with a turbulent interplanetary future, and many more - are interconnected across space and time by love, grief, and quantum entanglement.

Spanning continents, centuries, and dimensions, this exquisitely crafted and madly inventive novel - a triple-disk, concept-album of a book - is a profound yet propulsive enquiry into the nature of reality - the perfect immersive read for fans of David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood.

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30 August 2022
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15.6 x 5.9 x 23.5 cm
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978-1472286680
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Mind-bendingly clever and utterly gripping ― DAILY MAIL

Ingenious and compelling ― THE TIMES, BOOKS OF THE MONTH

A fascinating and assured debut ― THE GUARDIAN

A book designed to be more than the sum of its parts, and one that achieves that because love is the thing that binds it together. Vitally fresh. ― DOMINIC NOLAN

With strong echoes of David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami or Emily St John Mandel...this is a madcap ride to somewhere new with thrills to spare and a gallery of truly fascinating characters. One for the ages. ― CRIME TIME

A trans-dimensional, kaleidoscopic mystery-box of a novel.... wholly and riotously original. Haddon is a mad scientist of genre and his epic is a tour de force -- PETER HO DAVIES

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Propulsive but profound, this inventive and exquisitely crafted novel is the perfect immersive read for fans of David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandel, Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Headline; 1st edition (30 August 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472286685
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472286680
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 5.9 x 23.5 cm

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Cole Haddon is an Australian-American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist whose work has been published or produced for screens across the world. DRACULA, his first TV commission, was produced by NBC and Sky Living starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, his first novel, will hit shelves on 1 September of 2022. He lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia with his wife and two children.

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JB

Brilliantly inventive story from an amazing writer

Reviewed in Australia on 31 October 2022

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One of the best books I've read in a long long time. Incredibly layered and rich in story and character. Highly recommend!

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Awesome AND frustrating!

Reviewed in Australia on 27 November 2022

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A rarity .... I don't really know where to even begin reviewing such a massively well crafted and descriptive yarn. Like the story - if you can even describe it as one - I couldn't put this book down BUT it took me five full nights of concentrated reading to wade through a Matrix styled, time travelling and I just had to stick it out for the ending.
Result, I'm still substantially confused and if I'm honest, annoyed that I feel I only half grasped the authors story telling intent. One reviewer giving the book five stars stated a re-read is essential to understand the authors full intent, of this I heartily agree - which is not why I would overly recommend this book as it is, quite literally, too complicated.

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Meaghan

This Book is Blowing My Mind!

Reviewed in Australia on 12 September 2022

I really didn't know what to expect with this book. And in the most brilliant way, still don't! Psalms for the End of the World already has me on my toes! I'm trying to get my son to bed earlier and earlier so I can fit in more reading. So far this book journey has seen me meeting so many fascinating characters, who make me question everything about reality as we know it, and how we love and grieve. It's absolutely blowing my mind and I don't want it to finish! What else should I expect from the creator of the Dracula tv series? Grab it now - and gift it for Christmas. It really is a must read!

Reviewed in Australia on 2 October 2022

This book helped me confront and process so much of my own grief, which I didn't realize it was doing as the writer has written an absurdly compelling and mind bending kaleidoscope of rich characters in a sci-fi love story narrative through time. I'm glad to discover that the author is an accomplished screenwriter, because this book has to be made into a series ASAP!

Astounding.

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LJ Ferrara

Epic tale | Highly recommended

Reviewed in Australia on 23 November 2022

I’ve been looking forward to reading / hearing this and I haven’t been disappointed!

This is an epic tale of great characters, time travel and alternate realities.

I loved the message that we are all connected in one way or another. Something I really connected to.
Highly recommended!

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Scott Malin

Favourite book of 2022

Reviewed in Australia on 18 October 2022

This book twists reality and your mind. I loved it! Couldn't put it down. Easily my favourite book of 2022.

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Reviewed in the United States on 16 November 2023

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Spanning different universes, different eras, with a sprawling cast of unforgettable characters, and several engimatic McGuffins, it's hard to know even where to begin in summarizing this gorgeous novel. Brimming with big ideas, this is a HUGELY ambitious piece that questions the nature of reality, what it means to be human, what it means to love. While many strive to write Big Important Novels, far too many of those books collapse under their own weight, but this one manages to succeed on every level. Gorgeous prose tinged with humor and crackling dialogue, the novel brings together a dozen fascinating plotlines: an amnesiac wanted for a terrorist bombing finds himself on the run with a lover he can't remember; a pair of Holocaust survivors hunt down and murder former Nazis; a Muslim extremist finds himself transported to a 16th century Mayan city under threat from Spanish Conquistadors; a pair of struggling, African-American screenwriters surviving hand-to-mouth in Los Angeles; and a messianic rock star whose songs might just hold the secrets of the universe; all find themselves in the crosshairs of a mysterious time-traveling foe who is in search of a series of mystical paintings that cause people who see them to commit suicide. If that sounds like a lot, it is, but it all comes together and works in a breathtaking work of literary audacity. For fans of The Matrix, Lost, Cloud Atlas, The Actual Star, His Dark Materials, and 2666. Highly recommend.

lawrence alden

Breathtaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2023

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After thousands of forgotten books, finally another one that will stick in my mind forever.
It will be re-read I expect, over and again.

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A Novel That Will Transport You Through Time and Space

Reviewed in the United States on 29 October 2022

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Looking for a mind-bending Sci-Fi novel that will transport you to multiple worlds/ dimensions? This is the novel to read! Author Cole Haddon has written an adventurous epic of what seems, at first, like separate short stories that begin to intertwine to reveal surprising connections between characters throughout different time periods and realities. You won’t be disappointed at the end. Instead, you’ll want to reread it in order to follow the character arcs more closely the second time and search for “aha moments” you missed during the first read-through. Well done, Mr. Haddon, we’ll done. (I highly recommend purchasing both the hard copy and the Kindle version so you can read holding a beautiful paper copy, but also at night in the dark.)

Rhino

Highly recommend!

Reviewed in the United States on 28 September 2022

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Now, I’m no big city, professional critic so I’ll spare you my attempts at an actual review, but I have been known to read a word or two, and I thoroughly enjoyed Cole Haddon’s first novel, ‘Psalm For The End Of The World,’ a time jumping, sci-fi love story for our time!

Robert Jones is a man out of time, he’ll bent on destroying our reality; or is he just a man in love for the first time? Find out in this excellent debut novel: A time hopping mystery about love and loss, alternate realities and pie!

Jon A. Crowcroft

why psalms? surely the end of multiple worlds?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2022

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despite the glib title, this is a cool multverse tale about beings who are fighting about the control of, or trying to bring an end to the multiverse.....no spoilers, but this has more than a touch of Cloud Atlas on steroids, but also has a slightly too frenetic pace of context switching between strands to be as elegaic, or poetic - hence my review title "Why Psalms" - seems more like k-pop.
Also reminds me of the fab old Asimov tale, the Gods Themselves, more than a little...

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