Zoo City

[Beukes] brings a secret tenderness and humanity to her off-kilter portrait of the here and now * Guardian *Lauren Beukes is very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished – William GibsonA fabulous outing from an extremely promising writer … [It] has so much fabulous wordplay, imaginative settings and scenarios, and such a dark and cynical heart that I was totally riveted by it – Cory DoctorowBeukes’s energetic noir phantasmagoria … crackles with original ideas … Beukes skilfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir … powerful indeed – Jeff Vandermeer, New York TimesBeukes delivers a thrill ride that gleefully merges narrative styles and tropes, almost single-handedly pulling the “urban fantasy” subgenre back towards its groundbreaking roots * Publishers Weekly *Energetic and imaginative … Packed with colour, dark humour and thought-provoking ideas, Zoo City is an absolute must for anyone with a taste for the wilder edges of the genre * SFX Magazine *Original and unputdownable * Cosmopolitan *An unpredictable and helluva awesome read * Heat *Lauren Beukes is Jeff Noon crossed with Raymond Chandler. I loved it, it’s going to be huge – Paul CornellI couldn’t put this down. It’s weird, thrilling, funny… filled with sleazy characters and lots of bad attitude – Mike Nicol

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by AppleTV+, as well as Zoo City, Moxyland, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries, and she’s also a screenwriter, comics writer, journalist and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.