Universality

One night on a remote Yorkshire farm, an illegal rave pulses through the fields—until the music stops with a brutal act: a young man is nearly beaten to death with a solid gold bar.

An eager young journalist seizes the story, following a trail that winds through an unscrupulous banker-turned-landlord, a sharp-tongued newspaper columnist, and an anarchist collective squatting on the farm. She unravels the mystery, but her viral exposé only deepens the murk, leaving more unease than clarity.

With a razor’s edge of tension and an almost voyeuristic intimacy, Universality examines the strange power of language—how words can illuminate or obscure, soothe or wound, shape truth or twist it beyond recognition. Both electrifying and unsettling, this is a novel that stares straight into the force of what we say—and dares you to keep looking.