What would you do if you woke up naked in a strange hotel room in Australia minutes after falling asleep in London?
And what would you do if it was because
someone was trying to kill you...
THE ARRIVAL
Leo and Viv's Friday night starts out like any other. A bottle of wine, a takeaway from their favourite Chinese restaurant, a movie, then an early night.
Viv wakes in the middle of the night to a ringing phone. It's Leo - he claims that he's in Australia, despite the impossibility of it. An emergency passport is arranged. A return flight to London is booked, but before Leo can make it onto the plane, there's a flicker in the corner of his vision, and he wakes up in another bed, in another hotel room, in another country.
Someone with access to a groundbreaking technology and an axe to grind is beaming a group of individuals around the globe - and hunting them down, one by one, committing perfect, untraceable murders.
✨ One of The Times great thrillers to read in May 2026
✨ One of The Times great thrillers to read in May 2026
ABOUT ROBIN
Robin Brookes grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Brighton, England. She has worked as a playwright, copywriter and bookseller.
The idea for The Arrival came about after Robin heard, and misunderstood, the science behind the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics.
It is currently in development as a feature film in Hollywood.