Peterdown - An epic social satire, full of comedy, character and anarchic radicalism

  , WINNER OF THE McKITTERICK PRIZE 2022

'Madcap, hugely rich and entertaining' GQ

'Enjoyable, deft and humorous' The Times

'Entertaining, acute and remarkably prescient' TLS

'A book from the psychic fault-lines of 21st Century Britain . . . simultaneously down to earth and epic' Johny Pitts, author of Afropean

Peterdown, an industrial town with a noble past and a lacklustre present, has been chosen as the regional hub of Britain's first state-of-the-art bullet train network. High Speed+ promises the town a prosperous future but to make way for the new station, a local landmark will be have to be razed to the ground. On the shortlist are the Larkspur housing estate, a significant modernist masterpiece; and the Chapel, the beloved home of the town's football team. Local sports reporter Colin is as desperate to save the Chapel