Looming out of the unknown ... a sand tiger shark. Photograph: Jeffrey L Rotman/ Corbis

Listen to the first chapter of Steven Hall's debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts - the story of a man who wakes up with no idea of who he is, and finds himself pursued by a conceptual shark - read by Jack Davenport.

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