{"product_id":"the-vivisectors","title":"The Vivisectors","description":"DESCRIPTION : \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A novel to marvel at’ \u003c\/strong\u003eSOPHIE MACKINTOSH\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Astonishing’\u003c\/strong\u003e MICHAEL MAGEE\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003e‘Like Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world’ \u003c\/strong\u003e             \u003cem\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Doloriad \u003c\/em\u003ereturns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eIn a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal erupts: Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eAs the crisis consumes the university, Agathe’s boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam. Agathe soon finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth?\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003eCoursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, \u003cem\u003eThe Vivisectors\u003c\/em\u003e is a new kind of love story for a broken era and a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003eOne of the most talked about books of 2026, as seen in the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e, BBC, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eand many more.\u003c\/strong\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Genuinely experimental, relentlessly and rollickingly told’ \u003c\/strong\u003eBOOKER PRIZE JUDGES 2026\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Left me awestruck by its terrifying beauty’ \u003c\/strong\u003eHANNAH MURRAY, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Make-Believe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003e‘While there are echoes of Ottessa Moshfegh, Williams has a vision and energy all her own’\u003c\/strong\u003e             \u003cem\u003e GUARDIAN\u003c\/em\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e             \u003cstrong\u003e‘Part love story, part ecological fable … a bleakly funny study of ideological certainty’ \u003c\/strong\u003e             \u003cem\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e           \u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Williams writes with a gothic angularity that puts her in a category of one. 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