 Q
Heinemann, London, UK
Harcourt, Orlando, US
'Intellectually, this is dazzling; a history of the sects and doctrinal
intrigues of the Reformation that is simultaneously an epic novel of
espionage, betrayal and brutality; where minute details unfurl into the
eddy of events [...] An intricate pageant of ideas and their violence
would be enough to justify enthusiasm, but Q is much more than that [...] Q is a great novel, one that tells us about ourselves and how we came to be here.' (Scotland On Sunday)
'Oh it's fucking ace! But my missus, that's her specialist field, so
she's been explaining it to me all the way through. Medieval church
carnage. It's mental. I want to get it made into a film. That's my next
mission.' (Thom Yorke, Radiohead)
 Reviews of Q
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 54
Heinemann, London, UK
Harcourt, Orlando, US
'It seems impossible that the multitudinous names and story threads
could converge, but, deliciously, they do. The latest joint effort from
Wu Ming offers political commentary - cum - complicated escapism for
the brainiac reader.' ( Publishers Weekly)
' 54 is a great, sprawling epic. Serious and
satirical, it can be read as a spy novel, gangster thriller and
political manifesto, with enough scenes of unsavory characters, drug
smuggling, shoot-outs, and doomed love affairs to resemble a Romanzo della Polpa (pulp fiction). But this would be a shallow reading - 54
is much more complicated, and simple. At its heart it is a story of the
hopes and expectations we have for ourselves and each other, and how
the forces of history, life and love can dash and rebuild these.' ( The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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 MANITUANA
Verso, London and New York
To be published in Summer 2009
'There is no doubt that London in the 18th century was the prototype of
every contemporary metropolis, for better and for worse. However, we
underlined and focused on certain characteristics, zooming in on the
urban horizon of the era. We imagined London as a sort of Gotham City,
inhabited by characters as bizarre as they were modern. It’s a
reflection, too, of the ucronia from which we started. If we changed
the second numeral in the date and turned 1776 into 1976, on the
streets of Soho we'd still be able to spot curious figures with
“Indian” haircuts and painted faces, demonstrating right down to their
clothes an opposition to ordered British society.'
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