Black Bag

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while' ZADIE SMITH 'Black Bag made me laugh aloud dozens and dozens of times . . . I loved its inventive originality and its ambition: it is very powerfully worth your time' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Ya gotta read Black Bag' FERN BRADY 'A campus novel for our end times . . . Black Bag fizzes with wit and invention' Observer 'A triumph of deadpan comedy . . . As surreal and ambitious as Tom McCarthy's Remainder, only written by someone with the comic instincts of Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong' Sunday Times 'Hilarious and poignant . . . Luke's prose ripples with unusual images and wry aphorisms. An ode to the importance of friendship, tenderness and love' TLS 'With all the fuss about the manosphere, Black Bag comes as comic relief . . . profound as well as funny' Standard 'Had me laughing from page one' New Statesman 'Very, very funny' GQ 'Winningly wry, both vulnerable and dyspeptic' Mail on Sunday A penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized…

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