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Universality : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 - Natasha Brown
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Universality

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

By: Natasha Brown

Paperback | 13 March 2025

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In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread expos© raises more questions than it answers.

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 expos© 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 expos© 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.

Industry Reviews
'Universality is a precise dissection of class, wealth and power, written with a spareness that elevates and electrifies her prose. It's both intelligent and very entertaining.', Elizabeth Day

'I emerged from this novel with the conviction that the murder victim Brown is here to avenge is discourse itself. Original, vital, and unputdown-able.', Tess Gunty

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