London and the South-East

One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity
Brilliant… funny, painful, graphic… Compulsively readable * Independent on Sunday *
A wonderfully dark debut… A strikingly poetic glimpse into the soul of the faceless, big creatures into whose armpits one has so often been squashed on the central line * The Times *
This is David Szalay’s first novel, and startlingly good… A terrific debut… A tense and compelling read * Independent *
Superb… Riveting * Financial Times *
One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity
Brilliant… funny, painful, graphic… Compulsively readable * Independent on Sunday *
A wonderfully dark debut… A strikingly poetic glimpse into the soul of the faceless, big creatures into whose armpits one has so often been squashed on the central line * The Times *
This is David Szalay’s first novel, and startlingly good… A terrific debut… A tense and compelling read * Independent *
Superb… Riveting * Financial Times *

David Szalay is the author of six works of fiction, including London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes, All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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