--- product_id: 6432229 title: "Autumn (Autumn series, 1)" brand: "david moody" price: "€ 34.76" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/6432229-autumn-autumn-series-1 store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Autumn (Autumn series, 1) **Brand:** david moody **Price:** € 34.76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Autumn (Autumn series, 1) by david moody - **How much does it cost?** € 34.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/6432229-autumn-autumn-series-1) ## Best For - david moody enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted david moody brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Autumn (Autumn series, 1) ## Images ![Autumn (Autumn series, 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WZrom+4pL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Really Liked This *by T***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2012* Despite some less than stellar reviews I bought this book. I got a chapter or so into it and thought it sounded familiar. I had seen the movie. I really liked the book. I liked that it moved slowly. I think if real people faced such a scenario, they would experience the same disconnect: disbelief in the situation and the idea that rescue would come if you just stayed put and waited. Deciding on your own what to do would be a difficult decision, especially in the face of pressure from others.Moody's story slowly built up to the final confrontation. Anticipating some horrible climax is, to me, good horror. Even after having seen the movie, as I read the story I wanted to put it down. I couldn't. I wanted to see what would happen.I'm hooked. I'll read more of his books. ### ⭐⭐⭐ It's good. I'm not sure what it IS, but it's good. *by R***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2006* David Moody, Autumn (Infected Books, 2002)To take an old publishing saw and turn it on its head, for every million self-published disasters, where cartons of bloody horrible novels sit in an author's basement waiting for a single sale, there's one monstrous, awe-inspiring success story where a self-published author becomes richer than Croesus based on word of mouth alone.But I'm not here to talk about Christopher Paolini, I'm here to talk about David Moody. Who is not yet Croesus, but probably will be given a few more years.Autumn is like nothing you're ever read. It is often referred to in word-of-mouth gatherings as a zombie novel (and, in some cases, the zombie novel), and it's blurbed as a zombie novel on its cover. But here's the thing: it's no more a zombie novel than 28 Days Later... is a zombie movie, really. And this has led to some negative reviews by folks who were expecting something other than they got. If your blurb suggests a comparison to Romero, your readers are going to expect Night of the Living Dead lite, at least. Autumn is, above all, not that.It actually starts out rather more like Day of the Triffids than Night of the Living Dead-- a plague, whose genesis we do not yet know (though I assume we'll find out in the rest of the series), wipes out most of humanity. Or so we think-- again, our perceptions are confined to England here. For all we know, the rest of the world is just fine. (A trope used to great effect, with opposite endings, in Day of the Triffids and 28 Days Later....) But it's England we're focused on, and things are decidedly not fine there. A small group of survivors of the plague holes up in a drafty town hall and tries to live together. Moody is not interested in everyone coming together to face tragedy despite conflict, as was the case in Romero's or Robert Kirkman's or Brian Keene's works; no, Moody allows that the group is not sacrosanct, and three of the characters split off to try and find something better. (And yet even this group is not sacrosanct; Moody's iconoclasm cuts all the way to the bone, folks.) The remainder of the first book deals with the first period of his three characters adapting to post-plague life, after the dead finally do get up and walk around, which takes an awfully long time for a supposed zombie novel. It's impossible to go into the other main differences between Autumn and your typical zombie novel without major spoilers. Let's just say that Moody seems to have set out to write, simultaneously, an anti-zombie novel and a satire of zombie novels. Which, for obvious reasons, seems as if it's going to be working at cross-purposes with itself. And yet, somehow, he succeeds-- well enough, at least, that I've put the other three novels in the series in my Amazon shopping cart, to be bought with my Christmas gift certificate.As with most post-apocalyptic novels worth their salt, Moody doesn't focus on the by-products of the plague (in this case, the walking dead); he uses them as accents to highlight his story of interpersonal relations. Which sometimes falls a touch flat; there is, after all, a reason this is self-published work. But while the gulf between self-published and professionally published work is often a vast one, there is the odd book now and then that narrows the gap considerably; Autumn is one of them. This is one of the best-written books you'll ever see outside a professional publishing house. It's worth your time. *** ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent zombie book - with this so subtle English touch... *by T***X on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2007* This book is basically a tale of survival that makes us follow a group of people, foreign to one another, in a remote English city. What starts off as an isolated viral attack spreads incredibly fast and reaches the scale of a global epidemics in way less than a day. People just die randomly under one mere minute and spares no one: elders, infants, women and men alike, everybody's subject to the potential threat. A group of people manages to survive -the explanation will probably be given in one of the sequels- and decides to make it to the relative safety of the countryside. This is the story of their survival that Moody has us follow.I share the opinions of many a reader here: the book is somewhat slow to start. However, towards the last quarter of the novel, the pace gets up all of a sudden. Probably the main merit of the book is the quality of its human characters' thorough description. None of them is a Mr or Mrs "I-know-it-all-inside-out". Rather, they are full of doubts, subject to the highs and lows that each and every one of us would go through in just the same situation. Their morale is fragile, as is their social bond. Everything, from characters' description to the succession of their decisions and acts, the layout of the scenery, the behaviors of the various people involved, everything is accurate and highly credible.Know what? I don't know if you noticed that too, by Moody's managed to write his entire book without mentioning the term "zombie" a single time!! He instead uses words like creatures, corpses, pathetic beings etc. I guess this shows his willingness to break away from the usual zombie clichés: everything in his description of the transformation of the corpses into walking deads suggests that he is very fondly attached to the human side of things. He never criticizes what's happening. Rather, he writes in the style of a journalist: factual, to the point.This makes for a very great reading. If you manage not to be deterred by the somewhat slow action pace at the beginning of his novel, you won't be disappointed afterwards.Can't wait until a get the copies of his sequels in hands!! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/6432229-autumn-autumn-series-1](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/6432229-autumn-autumn-series-1) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-05-03*