A brilliant panic attack of a debut novel, Infinite Ground is an investigation into the swarming, sinister beauty of our own microbiology, and a celebration of the all-too-brief splendour of being alive and the enduring splendour of the natural world.
Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.
Stunning - a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with
hints of the best of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter,
and Julio Cortázar. Smart, clever, and honest. I doubt you've read
anything quite like it.
*Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach trilogy*
Weird, wonderful, totally indefinable... If not the Booker, then
surely the Goldsmiths beckons
*Guardian*
An electrifying piece of work: strange, terrifying, riveting, and
written with scintillating intelligence. In its thinking about the
porosity between the human and the non-human, it stands
shoulder-to-shoulder with Ballard, Lem, VanderMeer, Tom
McCarthy."
*Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others*
This is the work of a most singular and inventive mind, matched by
writing with real flair and clarity. It is a book alive with ideas
and cock-eyed intelligence, brimming with passages of genuine
brilliance. Infinite Ground does that magical thing that only the
very best novels do: it makes you see the world afresh. Dazzling
stuff.
*Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project*
Strange, haunting, dislocating
*Ian Rankin, author of the Rebus series*
Brimming with strong, startling ideas... A curious and often
remarkable book
*Literary Review*
An accomplished debut. It takes risks and challenges the narrative
form. A brave new voice - Martin MacInnes is a writer to look out
for.
*Jenni Fagan, author of The Sunlight Pilgrims*
A novel of intelligence, grace, cunning and warped imagination, one
that melds and sometimes clashes styles and influences to create
something original and unsettling. It is a bravura performance, and
one that announces Martin MacInnes as one of our most exciting new
voices
*Stuart Evers, author of Your Father Sends his Love*
Labyrinthine, beautifully written and teeming with ideas about
fiction and reality that linger long in the mind... A frighteningly
good debut novel
*Lee Rourke, author of Vulgar Things*
An impressive and finely textured debut... This is fiction as a
metaphorical labyrinth of the mind
*Guardian*
A talent of the first rank... We want to be informed and
entertained, I might also say, provoked and enlarged, and Martin
MacInnes delivers on all fronts with writing of genuine bravura and
originality
*Christopher Potter, author of How to Make a Human Being*
Strange, cerebral, incredibly assured
*The National*
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