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This spring, we are excited to welcome Natasha Brown, one of the most exciting young British novelists at work today, to Daunt Books Notting Hill to discuss her hotly anticipated new novel, Universality.
‘The book everyone will be reading and talking about in 2025…
Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling, this is the kind of fiction that makes you sit up and feel alive.’ – Andrew O’Hagan
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 long-read exposé 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 in 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.
‘You could call it crime or you could call it literary fiction,
but either way it outpaces its contemporaries in both genres with ease.’ – Jo Hamya
Natasha Brown is a British novelist. Her debut novel Assembly was shortlisted for awards including the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023 and one of the Observer’s Best Debut Novelists in 2021.
She’ll be interviewed by Lottie Hazell, a writer, contemporary literature scholar, board game designer, and the author of Piglet, a New York Times, Stylist, Good Housekeeping, Dazed and Elle ‘Best Book of 2024’.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.