'Mordant, torrential, incantatory, Bolano-esque, Perec-ian, and
just so explosively written that I had to stop and shake the
language-shrapnel from my hair and wipe it off my eyeglasses so I
could keep reading' Jonathan Lethem 'Full of clever postmodern
flourishes, self-referential winks and riotous set pieces. It's
funny, smart and beautifully written' Alex Preston, The Guardian 'I
absolutely adored Dead Souls. Reading it felt like overhearing the
most exhilarating, funny, mean conversation imaginable--which is to
say it made me extremely happy and I dreaded it ending' Megan
Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation 'I first heard about Solomon
Wiese on a bright, blustery day on the South Bank...' Later that
evening, at the bar of the Travelodge near Waterloo Bridge, our
unnamed narrator will encounter that very same Solomon Wiese. In a
conversation that lasts until morning, he will hear Solomon Wiese's
story of his spectacular fall from grace. A story about a scandal
that has shaken the literary world and an accusation of serial
plagiarism. A story about childhood encounters with nothingness and
a friend's descent into psychosis; about conspiracies and poetry
cults; about a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost and the
death of an old poet. A story about a retreat to the East Anglian
countryside and plans for a triumphant return to the capital,
through the theft of poems, illegal war profits and faked social
media accounts - plans in which our unnamed narrator discovers he
is obscurely implicated... A story that will take the entire night
- and the remainder of the novel - to tell. 'Reading Dead Souls
feels like discovering the British Bolano, and not just for the
gleeful dismantling of the cultural ego: the restless, searching
sensibility; the precise tuning-in to contradictory voices. I
haven't been so excited by a debut novel in a long time' Luke
Kennard, author of The Transition 'Elegant, ambitious, very serious
and very funny' Katharine Kilalea, author of OK, Mr. Field
'Sublime, legendary, delightfully unhinged. A rare and brilliant
pleasure' Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums
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