13th December 2024


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Natasha Brown Assembly Penguin, £9.99, 9780241992661


Shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Betty Trask Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. “In just 100 pages Natasha Brown delivers a body blow of a book. Assembly is extraordinary, each word weighed, each detail meticulously crafted… Brown is mercilessly clear-eyed in her delineation of how British culture is also 'assembled' – its history whitewashed and arguing against it near-impossible when 'the only tool of expression is the language of this place'. Yet she wields that language like a weapon and hits her mark again and again with devastating elegance,” said the Times.


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Natasha Brown


Now selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, Natasha Brown returns with a dazzling second novel. Alice O'Keeffe reports


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Imprint Faber Publication 13th March 2025 Formats HB (9780571389018 , £14.99); EB (9780571389049, £9.99) Rights sold Six territories to date, including the US (Random House) Editor Alex Bowler Agent Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander


atasha Brown’s first novel, Assembly, was one of the most-fêted literary debuts of recent years. Shortlisted for, among others, the Goldsmiths


Prize, the Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, it also saw her named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her second novel, Universality, more than delivers on the promise of her first. It is terrific; a pin-sharp, savagely funny tale of class, wealth and manipulation.


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