Appliance (Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction)

**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **

From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.

This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.

But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?

'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine

'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times



Appliance is a work of peculiar genius that gives the truth about modern technology. ― The Times, *Sci-Fi Book of the Year*

A serious-minded examination of the instinctive human ambivalence towards innovation. ― Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022*

Smart, subtle and blissfully jargon-free sci-fi stories from one of Britain's most acclaimed poets. ― Daily Telegraph, *Summer Reads of 2022*

[With] poetic precision... Appliance most succeeds is in its little riot of the real in the face of digital abstraction. ― Times Literary Supplement

A clever book, delivered confidently, that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life. ― Sunday Times