  Alex Garland is the author of The Beach (which was awesome and one of my top ten books) and The Tesseract (which I haven't read yet, but Jacqui says is good) and also wrote the screen play for the Danny Boyle directed 28 Days Later . You can find an excerpt from Garland's new novella, urlLink The Coma, here . From what I've read about the book, it is a short read that includes several wood cuttings from the author's father as illustrations for the story. It is also on Amazon, urlLink here . 
