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The fantastic new novel by the author of Angelmaker and The Gone-Away World.

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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR´Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can´t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.´ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven´Nick Harkaway´s most ambitious novel yet. [A] story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity ... An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.´ Guardian´Harkaway dazzles.´ Daily Mail´Wonderfully good.´ Sunday Times

Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of ´transparency.´ Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories.

When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn´t Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter´s psyche.

Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world.

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"Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can´t stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read." Emily St. John Mandel, author of ´Station Eleven´

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Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. Author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman, he lives in London with his wife and two children.

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