Something New Under the Sun

In Something New Under the Sun, Patrick Hamlin goes to Hollywood to see his novel adapted for the screen, but he suspects that the project is a cover for something else. He meets Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, and learns about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA. The novel is a bold, addictive, and urgent exploration of capitalism, environmental collapse, and our near future.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure. Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies, has written a magnificent and stunning work. Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander, has praised it as an immense achievement. Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road, has called it a bold, addictive, and urgent new novel about capitalism, environmental collapse, and our near future.

What is really going on? Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood to see his novel adapted for the screen, but why does he get the feeling that the film project is a smokescreen for something else? Does Cassidy Carter, the troubled starlet due to play the lead, know something he doesn't? And what is the truth about WAT-R, the synthetic water everyone drinks in LA?

Sharply funny, alluring, and devastating, Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment.

‘Sun-drenched, sharply observed, and swift-moving… strange and new. Guardian ‘Profoundly affecting – somehow both funny and deeply unsettling. Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind ‘Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and not-so-ambient apocalypse. Emma Cline, author of The Girls ‘A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR. A LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF 2021.

Weight: 250g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008339128