LiteratureBook · 2025
Universality
Natasha Brown
A man is bludgeoned with a gold bar at a squatted Yorkshire farm, and the opening third is the viral longread that 'solves' it. Then Brown circles the banker, the columnist and the journalist behind the piece, showing how every one of them weaponises words.
Why you should read this
Brown followed her acclaimed debut with a structurally unusual second novel that opens with a long magazine feature before pulling back to interrogate how that kind of narrative journalism shapes and distorts what it reports. Best for readers interested in media and language rather than character-driven plot.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 2025
- Themes
- ContemporaryWesternFiction
