At the same time they’re involved in an increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is sacred and why the purpose for which he was built – to predict threats to human life to help us avoid them – is a worthwhile and ethical pursuit. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Glossary Magazine Highly Anticipated Fiction PickĪ road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place.

'This is a book powered along with ferocious momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the page.Metro Best New Books to Read in Spring Pick 'Griffiths has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in our time.' Guardian 'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms' New Statesman, Books of the Year Broken Ghost is a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, it is written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once. An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited. This is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological phenomenon, or something supernatural? The individuals living in these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink, drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition unite these crushed people or their fragmented country? 'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine WelshĪ Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. **WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**

Broken Ghost by Niall Griffiths