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Universality by Natasha Brown

A hardcover book with a black cover featuring a gold bar embossed with the word ‘Universality.’ Natasha Brown is written underneath in gold.

Coming 13 March 2025

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 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.


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