"An absolute triumph!"

"It would make Danny Boyle proud."

"Finished it in two days; I could not put it down! A stunning, funny and at times, heartbreaking debut. I need a sequel!"

Ruby Brook walks out of the darkness of a Manchester cinema and straight into the end of the world.

One flash of light is all it takes. Suddenly the streets are dangerous, supplies are gone, and the people she tries to help want to tear her apart.

In Newcastle, Benedict Brown emerges from a gym changing room to the same nightmare.

Across empty motorways and shuttered high streets, SHADES follows two ordinary people separated by one hundred and fifty miles of peril. Ruby and Ben must make terrifying journeys across a collapsing North, hunted by The Blind and forced to make impossible choices just to stay alive.

Because when society falls apart, it’s not always the monsters that scare you most.

It’s everyone else.

Shades is 28 Days Later meets The Royle Family: a gritty, relatable northern apocalypse, where survival takes stubbornness, gallows humour, and a decent cuppa.

Perfect for fans of fast-paced apocalypse fiction, survival horror, and character-driven dystopian stories.