麻豆社

The end appears to be nigh in these two sparkling debut novels. Claire Fuller鈥檚 Our Endless Numbered Days is about a girl whose survivalist father takes her to a forest shack to save her from the end of the world. Edinburgh-based Nick Holdstock鈥檚 ambitious The Casualties recounts the final weeks of an eccentric cast of characters before the apocalypse arrives.

Recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 17 August 2015.