Perfidious Albion

Author: Byers, Sam

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 07-03-2019

Part Number: unknown

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party 'England Always' is fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged think pieces; a riot of opinions - suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it had always imagined itself to be.
Review
Furiously smart . . . madly funny. ―
Guardian

A mordant, needle-sharp satire. -- Jonathan Coe


Perfidious Albion is a spookily prescient take on Brexit Britain . . . This is the
Black Mirror school of storytelling: take what we know and give it a twist, so the familiar becomes frightening . . . Byers's observations are sharp and mordantly funny. -- Erica Wagner ―
New Statesman

Like an episode of
Black Mirror as scripted by a "woke" Martin Amis. . . Crackling with zeitgeisty energy. . . Byers makes twisty entertainment out of a timely wake-up call about shiny new technologies and the age-old interests they serve. ―
Observer

Brilliantly ironic, hilarious and profound. -- Joanna Kavenna ―
White Review 'Books of the Year'

Darkly plausible, witty and intelligent. ―
Financial Times

The best book about British politics I have read in some time. -- John Harris ―
Guardian

A brilliant, twitchy satire on media manipulation, grievance, one-upmanship and online echo chambers [and] a powerful, ingenious literary thriller. ―
Sunday Times

What's notable about Byers is his Amis-esque grasp of the absurd, his mastering of contemporary street dialogue, and his ability to tell a compelling, thoroughly modern story. ―
Big Issue

The Martin Amis'
Money of our time. -- David Baddiel

The toxic nature of the virtual has rarely been more satisfyingly skewered . . . In the days of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Byers' novel could hardly have greater resonance. ―
Scotsman

A satirical, often-gripping portrait of a post-Brexit England in turmoil . . . Brimming with comic energy . . . this is a sharp, pacey and anxious book, made all the more unsettling by its close proximity to the now, its knack for collapsing the boundary between the absurd and the terrifying. ―
Irish Times

Scorching . . .
Perfidious Albion is stuffed with diagnoses of internet culture's ills . . . But it is the novel's remarkable denouement that elevates it above state-of-the-nation satire. ―
Literary Review
Book Description
A searing, satirical portrait of a divided England in a connected age - a
1984 for our times.
About the Author
Sam Byers' writing has appeared in
Granta, the
New York Times and the
Times Literary Supplement. His debut novel,
Idiopathy, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the winner of a Betty Trask Award. His second novel,
Perfidious Albion, was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and shortlisted for the Encore Prize. His third novel,
Come Join Our Disease, is shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021.

EAN: 9780571336302

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches

Languages: English