Universality

Natasha Brown

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Faber & Faber
13 March 2025
ISBN: 9780571389018
Hardback
176 pages

From the publisher

'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 exposé 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 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 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 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.