The End of Mr Y

A book…
The End of Mr Y

A heroine…
Ariel Manto, perpetual PhD candidate (impoverished)

A curse…
mysterious deaths & disappearances

A portal…
into psychokinetic metaspace

A race…
against (or possibly around) time; outcome to determine the fate of humanity

This isn’t real life.

Real life is regularly running out of money, and then food. Real life is having no proper heating. Real life is physical. Give me books instead: give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images.
Let me become part of a book.

Praise for The End of Mr Y:

‘A masterpiece…a brilliant, engaging story.’

Douglas Coupland

‘A cracking good yarn fizzing with intelligence.’

Philip Pullman

‘Exhilarating.’

Time Out New York

‘Smart, stylish, and dizzying…A wholly enchanting alternate universe.’

New York Times Book Review

‘I read this book quickly, obsessively…I just loved reading this book more than doing just about anything else.’

Bookslut

‘The End of Mr Y is an elegant construction which reminds us that a magician’s book is a “grimoire” and that the organising principle of the world of thought is grammar; and that glamour, even the seedy glamour of Ariel’s world, is utter enchantment.’

Independent