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Published
Faber Fiction, April 2025
ISBN
9780571389025
Format
Softcover, 176 pages
Dimensions
21.6cm × 13.5cm

Universality Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

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A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE, WATERSTONES AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AMONG OTHERS

'An instant classic.' ELLE

'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' ANDREW O'HAGAN

'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' TESS GUNTY

'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY

In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread exposA (c) raises more questions than it answers.

Remember - words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency.

Late one night 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 longread exposA (c) 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.

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