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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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The novel's frontcover 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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