Description

DATE OF RELEASE: 12 MAR 2026

In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . . A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.

Hardback

Publication: 12 Mar 2026, John Murray
ISBN: 9781399826112

Extent: 320 pages

Product form
  • David's Bookshop

Black Bag by Luke Kennard

    DATE OF RELEASE: 12 MAR 2026 In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a... Read more

    £16.99

      • Guaranteed secure & safe checkout.

        shop pay

      Description

      DATE OF RELEASE: 12 MAR 2026

      In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . . A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.

      Hardback

      Publication: 12 Mar 2026, John Murray
      ISBN: 9781399826112

      Extent: 320 pages

      Size chart

      Sign up for our newsletter

      Subscribe to our emails

      Never miss any news and be the first to know about sale and offers

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account