FICTION

‘In precise and glittering prose, Alistair McNaught constructs a portrait of a city that feels both familiar and deeply strange. His cast of characters, grappling with various forms of desire and loneliness, enact a series of interlinked liaisons as they move around the labyrinthine streets, candlelit bars, apartment blocks and luxury villas. The novel exerts a hypnotic hold, the kaleidoscope slowly shifting until it resolves into a climax both inevitable and shocking.’

Jill Hopper

‘A striking and flavoursome Dystopian SF novel that provides a welcome, astringent literary alternative to genre shelves saturated with tired Space Opera and candyfloss Romantasy.’

Stephen E. Andrews

‘Set in a land that is somehow Eastern Europe and Britain both, this is a book full of mystery, misery, loneliness, desire and fear. A world like our own. The book draws you in with strong characters and a strangely luminous prose, and then steadily tightens the knot of suspense.’

Jonathan Neale