The Book Lovers

The kidnap of a rebellious heiress leads Inspector Nightjar into a steampunk underworld of brain love, greed, and revolution. Can the Raven Method uncover the big Truth? What powers Thousand Tower City? Why are books telling unfamiliar stories? How cosy is anarchy? Steve Aylett returns in this fizzing caper about "the good sin of thinking for yourself."

STEVE AYLETT is the author of books including Lint, Rebel at the End of Time, Novahead, Slaughtermatic, Heart of the Original, and The Complete Accomplice as well as the comics Hyperthick and The Caterer. He lives in Scotland.

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"The Book Lovers is like a box of fabulous surrealist eclairs." —GRANT MORRISON

"Aylett is the greatest absurdist of our age. Wise, wonderful, hilarious!" —MICHAEL MOORCOCK

"Utterly astonishing. Read this now before it happens." —ALAN MOORE

"Full of suspense, thrills, laughs, miracles and real humanity. An existential farce with a beating heart of gold." —PAUL DI FILIPPO

"A steampunk novel written by a Beat poet." —FRANKIE BOYLE

"The Book Lovers plays like a thematic prequel to Fahrenheit 451, upgraded eloquently for the 21st century." —THE ZONE

"Sapiosexual anarchists, warmongering industrialists, aggressively figurative language: The Book Lovers is Aylett's most accessible work yet." —NICK MAMATAS

"A stream of consciousness powerful enough to fill a water park." —SFX

"Aylett's fireworks are at maximum intensity—dazzling, dizzying, and coming straight at you." —AUG STONE

"A mixture of Dickens and Robert Rankin with a tin of multicoloured paint thrown at it." —BSFA REVIEW

"The densest and most entertaining book of deconstructive literature produced this year. Or at least the funniest." —ANCILLARY REVIEW