Whitcoulls recommends Gabrielle Zevin and John Brownlow

Tomorrow, & Tomorrow, & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I loved this and didn’t particularly expect to as it’s about two kids who meet as children on the ward in a hospital where they play video games together; and then meet up 8 years later when Sam is at Harvard and Sadie’s at MIT and together produce a game which is a massive global hit. Gaming is so not my thing but the guts of this story is actually about managing relationships when you’re young and smart and successful, with work at the core of everything along with the challenges of friendship, jointly running a business and managing creativity. And love at the heart of things – though theirs is not a romantic relationship and I really liked the way that a longstanding friendship is put to the test over many years. And of course the title comes from Macbeth.  Seventeen by John Brownlow. A thriller – clever premise about our hero, let’s call him Jones, who works in in covert black ops, and he’s # 17 in a long line of assassins. He’s had to climb over # 16 to become the pre-eminent guy, knowing full well that one day #18 will come and take him out. Turns out that #16 had gone to ground for a few years but now the guys in charge want him taken care of and 17 is sent to do the job - which gets interesting when you have two highly trained and skilled operators facing off against each other, both knowing all the tricks of the trade. It’s highly entertaining and compulsively readable.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.