Nobody better than Charlie Brooker to take a swing at Big Brother. His Screenwipe series is as refreshingly cynical as a slap in the face. I always like zombies in the UK (Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later, obviously, but also classics like Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) and this looks like it will fit the bill.

Enjoyed The Words of Their Roaring, although I’ve never approved of intelligent zombies. Sort of makes them into something else, but the explanation of how the virus is adapting over the years makes this acceptable enough. The concept of survivors like Harry Flowers using the chaos of the undead to gain power is depressingly realistic. I guess that humans always want to gain an advantage no matter what the circumstances. Matthew Smith saves most of the gore for the end of the book and does some interesting things with time by skipping back and forth, giving us a glimpse into a world literally ruled by the dead.

The Words of Their Roaring