Wednesday 16th September, 7.30pm
Join us for an evening with Natasha Brown, celebrating the paperback release of her Booker Prize Longlisted novel, Universality.
Natasha Brown was listed as one of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists after her debut Assembly, which was shortlisted for multiple awards including the Goldsmiths and Orwell Prizes. Since the publication of Universality last year, she has chaired the 2026 International Booker Prize.
Her fantastic, Booker-longlisted Universality is an outstanding political novel that elegantly refuses tribalism or stereotypes, leading the reader on a twisting journey through the ideological and media landscape of modern Britain in a mere 175 pages.
On an abandoned Yorkshire farm, a group of hippie-anarchists have taken up residence to build a new society. When their leader is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, an ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack. The longread exposé she writes goes viral - but is there more to the story than meets the eye?Universality unravels the messy aftermath of that exposé through the perspective of each of the mystery's key players: a self-pitying banker, a columnist with secrets, a cult leader with dreams, and a fugitive with nothing left to lose.
Part of our September Faber Wednesdays series.
Wednesday 16th September, 7.30pm
Join us for an evening with Natasha Brown, celebrating the paperback release of her Booker Prize Longlisted novel, Universality.
Natasha Brown was listed as one of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists after her debut Assembly, which was shortlisted for multiple awards including the Goldsmiths and Orwell Prizes. Since the publication of Universality last year, she has chaired the 2026 International Booker Prize.
Her fantastic, Booker-longlisted Universality is an outstanding political novel that elegantly refuses tribalism or stereotypes, leading the reader on a twisting journey through the ideological and media landscape of modern Britain in a mere 175 pages.
On an abandoned Yorkshire farm, a group of hippie-anarchists have taken up residence to build a new society. When their leader is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, an ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack. The longread exposé she writes goes viral - but is there more to the story than meets the eye?Universality unravels the messy aftermath of that exposé through the perspective of each of the mystery's key players: a self-pitying banker, a columnist with secrets, a cult leader with dreams, and a fugitive with nothing left to lose.
Part of our September Faber Wednesdays series.
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