Universality
By Natasha Brown

In the new novel from the author ofand Assembly,and a viral longread expos© raises more questions than it answers.A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THEand GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE,and WATERSTONES ANDand GOOD HOUSEKEEPING,and AMONG OTHERS'An instant classic.'and ELLE'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.'and ANDREW O'HAGAN'Original, vital, and unputdownable.'and TESS GUNTY'Utterly phenomenal.'and ELIZABETH DAYIn the new novel from the author ofand 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.Universalityand 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'sand Assemblyand is a compellingly nasty celebration of the spectacular force of language. It dares you to look away.