Universality by Natasha Brown (SIGNED INDIE EDITION, PRE-ORDER)

Signed independent bookshop edition.

In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread exposé raises more questions than it answers. Remember - words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency. On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar.

A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement. She solves the mystery, but her viral long read exposé raises more questions than it answers. Universality is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power.

Through a voyeuristic lens, it focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean. The follow-up novel to Natasha Brown's Assembly is a compellingly nasty celebration of the spectacular force of language. It dares you to look away.

Hardback
Publication: 13 Mar 2025, Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571395675
Extent: 128 pages