Sometimes a new literary voice comes along and quietly blows our minds. If your reading group enjoys discovering talented new authors, reading Booker Prize-type novels and wants a novel ‘brimming with strong, startling ideas’ (Literary Review) then we have three sets of 10 hardbacks to giveaway of the stunning (both literally and figuratively) Infinite Ground by Martin McInnes.
All we ask is you tell us what you think on Twitter and leave some reviews on Amazon and Waterstones.
For readers of Tom McCarthy, Ben Marcus, Ben Lerner, Paul Auster and Eimear McBride.
THE NOVEL
During a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner at a restaurant. Midway through the meal, Carlos disappears. An experienced, semi-retired inspector takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something strange, intangible, even sinister. The corporation for which Carlos worked seems to serve no purpose; the staff talk of their missing colleague’s alarming, shifting physical symptoms; a forensic scientist uncovers evidence of curious abnormalities in the thriving microorganisms that shared Carlos’s body. As the inspector relives and retraces the missing man’s footsteps, the trail leads him away from the city sprawl and deep into the country’s rainforest interior, where he encounters both horror and wonder.
THE REVIEWS
‘Stunning – a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with hints of the best of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and Julio Cortázar. Smart, clever, and honest. I doubt you’ve read anything quite like it.’ – Jeff VanderMeer
‘An accomplished debut. It takes risks and challenges the narrative form. A brave new voice – Martin MacInnes is a writer to look out for’ – Jenni Fagan
‘Weird, wonderful, totally indefinable… If not the Booker, then surely the Goldsmiths beckons’ – Guardian
‘Brimming with with strong, startling ideas… A curious and often remarkable book’ – Literary Review
THE AUTHOR
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.
