Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. He studied philosophy, sociology, and politics at Clare College, Cambridge, and then worked in the film industry. The Gone-Away World is his first novel. He lives in London with his wife.
Exuberant...Wildly inventive -- Michael Gove * The Times * A stunning debut * Scotland on Sunday * [A] post-apocalyptic triumph ... Immensely rewarding ... Genuinely terrifying * The Times * Breathtakingly ambitious ... A bubbling cosmic stew of a book, written with such exuberant imagination that you are left breathless by its sheer ingenuity * Observer * Its scope and ambition are extraordinary, its execution is often breathtaking, and its style is by turns hilarious, outrageous, devastating, hip and profound ... Hugely entertaining * Independent on Sunday *