Lord of the Flies meets Lost meets The Beach. Presumed dead, a group of undergraduate students who go missing on a deserted Pacific island emerge one year later in two groups of ragged (and naked) survivors. All but one of the surviving women have conceived, and two students, plus their professor, are said to have died. In the glare of the world's media, every survivor sticks to the same unconvincing version of events. Piece-by-piece the narrator examines the evidence and conducts interviews with the survivors, to work out exactly what happened on the island during that year. Slowly, a disturbing picture emerges of feral humans driven by rivalry and sexual tension ...a 'Lord of the Flies' scenario for adults that suspiciously seems to test the dead professor's theory that by nature people are no different from apes in the wild.

 

'Primal is a fascinating examination of what human nature really is.
Terrific stuff, and heads and shoulders above what most people come to expect from a publisher's 'horror line', and as such a fitting addition to a very high quality line of literary, intelligent works of edgy fiction.' British Fantasy Society Forum

 

'Wow, double wow. Primal is one of the best books I have read this year by far. Robin Baker sucks you into a world where you are ultimately amazed and perplexed by the story that unfolds. This is one book that will blow you away.' Coffee Time Romance and MoreUS

Virgin UK & US

 

Trademark/FMB NL

 

Kinneret Israel

 

JC Lattes France

 

Record Brazil

 

Metafora Czech Republic

 

Material: finished copies (384pp).

 

Now a modern classic of popular science writing, SPERM WARS is Robin Baker’s revolutionary thesis about sex. Evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolise women, while women, without ever knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners. He reveals the new facts of life: 10 per cent of children are not fathered by their ‘fathers’, less than 1 per cent of a man’s sperm is capable of fertilising anything, and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner.

 

Baker describes fictionalised scenes and then explains the science behind the actions to demonstrate how our everyday behaviour fits into a pattern of evolution.

 

Published to acclaim and controversy a decade ago, SPERM WARS turned centuries-old biological assumptions on their head.

 

‘The most entertaining science book of the year.’ Sunday Times

 

‘Riveting.’ The Times

 

‘Fascinating.’ Daily Mail

Thundersmouth Press/Avalon UK & USA

 

Yuan Fang China (simplified)

 

Rye-Field China (traditional)

 

Limes Verlag Germany (Bastei paperback)

 

Lattes France

 

Record Brazil

 

Adaptek-Tough Russia

 

Rebis Poland

 

El Paradiso Estonia

 

Issihia Misztikus Kozpont Hungary

 

Jota Czech Republic

 

Ehak Korea

Published but out of print & rights reverted:

 

Macmillan UK

 

Basic Books USA

 

Arbeiderspers NL

 

Pecker Israel

 

Diana World Spanish

 

Kachi Korea

 

Baldini & Castoldi Italy

 

HarperCollins Canada

 

Forum Sweden

 

Borgen Denmark

 

Kawade Shobo Japan

 

Vega Portugal