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Universality

A novel

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Universality

Written by: Natasha Brown
Narrated by: Norma Butikofer, Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2025 • NPR’s Books We Love

Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency:
a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a writer who “brilliantly illuminates the entrenched inequalities of our time” (The Guardian).

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.

An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, namely: Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true? Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses in on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

The thrilling new novel from one of the most acclaimed and incisive young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political World Literature
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