The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
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The award-winning cult classic. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
First things first, stay calm.
Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn’t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric finds that he is being hunted by a creature that moves in language, that swims through the currents of human interaction.
With the help of his cynical cat Ian, Eric must search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows the truth.
“Inventive, funny and extremely smart … I nearly fell off my chair with admiration”
Audrey Niffenegger
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“A fast, sharp-toothed work of genius. An instant classic”
Matt Haig
“A psychological thriller with shades of Memento and The Matrix and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns”
guardian
“Very entertaining. The bastard love-child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code”
Mark Haddon
“Clever, exciting, funny and moving”
sunday Times
Steven Hall
Steven Hall is the author of The Raw Shark Texts and was lead writer on the bestselling video game Battlefield 1, for which he received a Writer’s Guild nomination. The Raw Shark Texts, his debut novel, won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was an international bestseller and has been translated into over thirty languages. In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. His long-anticipated second novel Maxwell’s Demon is forthcoming from Canongate in 2021.
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