Recommended by Childrens Books Ireland (14yrs+)

GENESIS by BERNARD BECKETT

In this original thriller, Beckett imagines a post-apocalyptic civilisation wherein artificial intelligence has come to rival the human mind in the battle for evolutionary supremacy. The story unfolds through a series of philosophical dialogues, wherein student Anaximander is required to fundamentally question what it means to be a living, sentient being. This subject matter is enlivened by a prose style that serves to both energise and illuminate, ensuring pleasure and reward for the inquisitive reader.