Universality

'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY

Natasha Brown

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Faber & Faber
01 April 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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A MUST-READ NOVEL OF 2025 IN THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, ELLE, WATERSTONES AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AMONG OTHERS

'An instant classic.' ELLE 'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' ANDREW O'HAGAN 'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' TESS GUNTY 'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY

In the new novel from the author of Assembly, a viral longread expos raises more questions than it answers.

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 expos 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.

By: Natasha Brown
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9780571389025
ISBN 10: 0571389023
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Natasha Brown is a British novelist. Her debut novel Assembly was shortlisted for several awards including the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into 17 languages. Natasha 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's also a Women's Prize Futures Award finalist.

Reviews for Universality: 'Utterly phenomenal.' ELIZABETH DAY

'Universality is a precise dissection of class, wealth and power, written with a spareness that elevates and electrifies her prose. It's both intelligent and very entertaining.', Elizabeth Day 'I emerged from this novel with the conviction that the murder victim Brown is here to avenge is discourse itself. Original, vital, and unputdown-able.', Tess Gunty