UNIVERSALITY

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 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.