In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. t's a plague - and only days later it is already killing people. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges- small outbreaks at ?rst, but then suddenly i. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tick Tock: A Times Thriller of the Year (Hardback) Utterly exciting, urgently contemporary, piercingly insightful, it more than confirms the promise of his bestselling and acclaimed first thriller, Knife Edge. It tells the story of a different kind of pandemic through the eyes of three people at the heart of the storm. Tick Tock is the compelling new novel from master storyteller and legendary DJ, Simon Mayo. And how it's going to threaten his world. Kit is more concerned about his students - and his young daughter, Rose - but little by little he gets sucked into where this mystery illness might have come from. But as the virus rips through the school and into the outside world, the world starts to take notice. Even eminent bacteriologist and his partner Lilly Slater can't help him. Where does the world go from here? In the north London school where it is first discovered, head of English, Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. There is a paranoid panic which sets friend against friend, neighbour against neighbour. The hospitals are overflowing and there is no cure. f people, young and old, and suddenly it's a plague - and ten days later it's killing people. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges, small outbreaks at first, contained groups o. A tick tick ticking you can hear in your ear. Tickets cost £19 for adults and are available for purchase here. The night will revolve around suggestions and questions from the audience as the two doctors attempt to diagnose the ills of the film word.įrom a passionate look at the creation of film to the rules of cinema-going, the pair will also take you on a journey through the best and worst films ever made. The show will be injected with copious amounts of the pair's signature humour and big doses of audience interaction. The pair - who host a weekly film review show on the radio channel which has led to Kermode becoming Britain's answer to Roger Ebert - will take to the stage with a new, unique blend of movie trivia, forthright opinion and no-holds-barred bickering on November 30 at Warwick Arts Centre. Well, the nation's go-to movie expert Mark Kermode is coming to Coventry later this year alongside his fellow BBC Radio Five Live presenter Simon Mayo. Do you love film? Find yourself counting down the days until the next blockbuster hits the multiplexes?

The Movie Doctors by Simon Mayo