The MANIAC

'If you've yet to sample Labatut, stop wasting time. Get on the Labatut train.' - BookMunch 'Talent, ambition, skill, intelligence - [are] present in abundance.' - Guardian, Book of the Day 'Captivating' - Irish Times 'Thrilling - and chilling [...] A gripping read.' - Marie Claire, Best Books of 2023 'A dark, strange novel by a rising literary star' - New Scientist 'Intoxicating... this marvel of a book, which inspires awe and dread in equal measure, is stalked by the greatest terrors of the 20th century, yet its final heart-stopping sentence makes clear the greatest terrors are yet to come' - Daily Mail 'As addictive as a true crime tale' - Mail on Sunday 'Absorbing... perfect for anyone thirsting for more nuclear anxiety after watching Oppenheimer... reads like the physicist Carlo Rovelli crossed with the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft' - Chris Power, Sunday Times 'Both entertains and provokes... [Labatut's] infernal vision of science captures something of the unsettling vertigo of living right here in the Anthropocene after all' - TLS 'Emerging as the most significant South American writer since Borges... there is no one writing like him anywhere in the world' - Interview in the Telegraph 'Brilliantly cerebral'- 5* Sunday Telegraph 'Praise for' - When We Cease to Understand the World: 'A monstrous and brilliant book' - Philip Pullman 'Mesmerising and revelatory' - William Boyd 'Ingenious, intricate and deeply disturbing' - John Banville