#hotel alpha

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Kok mereka bisa tau?

Kok mereka bisa tau?

Kemaren sore seitaran pukul 3, aku dapat sms dari salah satu restoran yang makanan utamanya ayam goreng, you-know-what-I-mean. Kalian pernah dapet juga gak sih? Yang isi pesannya itu ngasih paket makan murah sekitar belasan ribu gitu. Nah, pasti udah pernah kan dapet sms yang sejenis? Pernah ngerasa gak kalian dipantau gitu gak?

Kemaren, kebetulan aku lagi ikut workshop broadcasting journalisticy…

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A magician is just an actor impersonating a magician.

Hotel Alpha by Mark Watson

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Can we just address the fact that Hotel Alpha is incredible, please? Thanks. 

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Hotel Alpha - Mark Watson

Three decades ago, the charismatic Howard York built the empire of his dreams: the Hotel Alpha. It was once the finest in London, but over the years, as the world around it has moved on at an ever more dizzying rate, the hotel has struggled to keep pace.

Graham, the Alpha's concierge, has been behind the front desk since the day the hotel opened and has witnessed every stage of its history. Chaz, Howard's blind adopted son, has almost never ventured outside its walls. Both of them view the Alpha as their sanctuary, the place that gives them everything they need. But both of them must now accept that the Alpha no longer offers them the life they most want, and that Howard's vision has been built on secrets as well as dreams . . .

The novel also has a companion volume, "an electronic collection of 100 short stories. The book itself is about a London hotel and the way the internet changes the lives of two people who lives there. The 100 stories serve as a sort of alternative version, taking up the little stories there’d be no space for in the main novel, giving a new life to some of its minor characters, clearing up the odd mystery from the book but mostly spinning a web of new tales spanning the twenty or so years of HOTEL ALPHA’s action."

Pre-order today! Released 31 July. 

Read Mark's full description and reasoning behind the new novel here.