Universality (Blue Cover)'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' Andrew O'Hagan 'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' Tess Gunty 'Breathtaking a precise dissection of class, wealth and power.' 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. On a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist

from Cambridge to a wintry Suffolk estuary

Jonas suddenly finds himself pursued by those who want to keep him quiet

serving not as a soldier but as a civilian provisioners assistant

Family is everything

technology

he was tasked with helping her disappear

armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan

Just turned thirty-three (after what seemed like an interminable twelve months of being thirty-two)

But there's a problem: the Thevshi claims to know who's responsible for his brother's death

Will he get the girl

The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth

and those that we make for ourselves