Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché

In collaboration with Appetite Book Club and Red Lion Books.

Award-winning poet and naturalist, Helen Macdonald (H is for Hawk) has collaborated with musician and writer Sin Blaché to write this dazzling, breath-taking and genre-blending science fiction thriller. This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you…

An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other – Prophet – is targeting innocent people. But nobody knows who created it, or why.

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This is a hybrid event – you can either attend in person, or participate online via Zoom. To register to view the event online go to tickettailor.com. The link to watch the event live will be sent to you a few days before the event.

Thursday 27 June, 11.00am

Venue: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, CO1 1NF
Tickets: In person: £14.99 includes paperback copy of book; Online: Free

Box Office:
In person: Via Red Lion Books redlionbooks.co.uk
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Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché

Published 20 June 2024

Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon ­– the must-read sci-fi thriller of summer 2024.

This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you…

An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. And the deaths quickly follow. A weapon like no other – Prophet – is targeting innocent people. But nobody knows who created it, or why.

Sunil Rao seems a surprising choice of investigator. Chaotic and unpredictable, the former agent is the antithesis of his partner Lieutenant Colonel Adam Rubenstein, the model of a military man. But Sunil has the unique ability to distinguish truth from lies: in objects, words and people, in the past and in real time. And Adam is the only one who truly knows him, after a troubled past together. Now, as they battle this strange new reality, they are drawn closer than ever to defend what they both hold most dear.

Prophet can weaponise the past. But only love will protect the future.

About the Authors

Helen MacDonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. Their books include H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Sunday Times bestselling Vesper Flights. They live in Suffolk with their two parrots.

Photo of Helen MacDonald © Tom Oliver Lucas

Sin Blaché is an author and musician. They have been writing horror and sci-fi stories all their life. Prophet is their first novel. Born in California, they live in the Northwest of Ireland and can be found obsessing over obscure folk instruments, being an ambivalent saviour to feral cats, and playing too many video games.

Photo of Sin Blaché © Stevie Toye, Logopix