Jon Lymon reviews Autumn: The London Trilogy by David Moody

Before bigging up the writing in Autumn: The London Trilogy by David Moody, I’ve got to mention Aubrey Parsons, narrator of the Audible version of this trilogy whuch I listened to. He can’t half do an impressive range of different regional UK accents, an absolute necessityfor this multi-character trip through England's capital city post apocalypse.

Moody certainly knows his streets of London, like a cabbie post The Knowledge knows the streets of London. And having worked in the capital for many years myself, I could visualise many of the places that featured here, particularly St Katharine’s Dock which is a beautiful place to visit near Tower Bridge in real life, but not such an attraction in Autumn.

Now, if you like books where you’re rooting for a hero, there isn’t really one here, but several across the three books- Autumn: Dawn, Autumn: Inferno and Autumn: Exodus. And in true Walking Dead style – a TV series that is referenced here - not all of them make it, so you’ll often find yourself changing allegiances when it comes to favourite characters.

And the baddies, apart from the undead which don’t seem to be quite so bloodthirsty as in other zombie stories I’ve read and written, are human too, with former policitian Dominic, and Eastern European Piotr likely to top your list of hurry up and get your comeuppance characters.

It’s a compelling series which I happily listened to back to back (about 30 hours worth). My only question is, unless I missed something, why is the subject of how these characters survived while 99.9% of the population perished never mentioned or tackled or explained?