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Reality Shows in Books

  • Submitted: 7th March 2025

Reality Shows in Books

There have been several books lately where a group take part in a reality show and get up to all kinds of mischief, so would you be brave enough to take part in any of the following?

 

Books set in reality shows

 

Isolation Island Louise MinchinScotland

Isolation Island

Ten Contestants who have to dress up as Monks and the island is called Monk Island

The most gruelling – and lucrative – reality survival show ever devised

A contestant ends up dead.

 

 

 

 

Then Things Went Dark Bea FitzgeraldPortugal

Then Things Went Dark

Three weeks and 18 episodes

The contestants are hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high and losing is not an option.

Twelve million people were watching when Rhys Sutton died on camera

 

 

 

A Game of Lies Clare MackintoshWales

A Game of Lies 

The Welsh countryside really comes into its own here. A reality show in the mountains on a farm. It sounds perfect! This is no survival show however. Every contestant has had to tell the producers a secret to get on the show and if they don’t win, their secret will be broadcast to the world.

 

 

 

 

 

The Escape Room L D SmithsonFort in the middle of the sea (n off Portsmouth, England)

The Escape Room

Bonnie arrives on a remote sea fort off the coast of England to take part in a mysterious reality TV show. Competing against seven strangers, she must solve a series of puzzles to win the prize money, but this is no game – and the consequences of failure are deadly.

 

 

 

 

 

Freeze Kate SimantsThe Arctic

Freeze

Frozen Out is set to be a TV sensation. On a small ship off the coast of Greenland, eight contestants will push themselves to breaking point for a £100,000 prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, which of the above TV reality shows would YOU go on?

 

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