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

Peterdown, an industrial town, has been chosen as the regional hub of Britain's first state-of-the-art bullet train network. To make way for the new station, a local landmark will be razed to the ground, sparking an epic, wide-angle novel with character and incident. Affairs are embarked upon, conspiracies are uncovered, and a broad-based popular insurgency ignites.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 608 pages
Publication date: 03 February 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

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, 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 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 as his architect partner Ellie is determined to save the Larkspur, and they soon find themselves leading increasingly passionate and opposing campaigns.


Out of this spins an epic, wide-angle novel, rich with character and incident.


Affairs are embarked upon. Conspiracies are uncovered. A broad-based popular insurgency ignites.


Peterdown


is a riotous novel that brings England's beleaguered streetscape to life and finds lurking there a playful and storied counterculture: mad monks and machine breakers, avant-gardists and non-conformists.

Weight: 464g
Dimension: 127 x 197 x 45 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472155849