‘Utterly phenomenal’
Elizabeth Day
‘Confirms Natasha Brown as
a major talent’
Observer
‘A sharp, clever take
on contemporary culture’
Daily Mail
‘Smart, twisty and original’
David Nicholls
‘The kind of fiction that
makes you sit up and feel alive’
Andrew O’Hagan
‘A searing,
state-of-the-nation novel’
Stylist

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.
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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