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Black Chalk

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What to expect

One game. Six students. Five survivors.

It was only ever meant to be a game.

A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results.

Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.

Critics Review

An inventive and intricate psychological puzzle thriller that mystifies, torments, disturbs, beguiles... a powerfully intelligent debut
The Times
A compulsive page-turner that will hold your attention until the very last word
Sun
Sinister, addictive and unpredictable – this is a novel to be devoured greedily, at speed, but one that will leave its footprint on your memory for far longer
Red
Yates’s take on the collegiate thriller lives up to early comparisons to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History... filled with gleeful malevolence
Grazia
[A] chilling debut...this is a thriller, a cautionary tale and a sobering exploration of unintended consequences rolled into one
Daily Mail
Black Chalk grabs from the get-go... Yates plots with tantalizing skill
People
This addictive psychological thriller will have you hooked from start to game over
Stylist
Compelling
Guardian
A truly chilling thriller, with campus-fun-gone-wrong echoes of Donna Tartt's The Secret History
Psychologies
A very exciting debut - like The Secret History, but so much creepier... This is intellectually challenging psychological thriller writing at a high level
Shots Mag
Author Christopher J. Yates
Narrator Peter Brooke
Duration 13 hours and 32 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473500273
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Collections Dark Academia
Availability AU, GB, IE

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