Magical contemporary fantasy meets fantastical memoir in the new novel from a cult favourite, Jeff Noon.
The Dust tells the story…
1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter’s last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours but beyond and beside what we know is Greot; a vast swirling rainbow of many-coloured dust. It settles on the dead, it swathes cities and fields. Joe is one of the few who have the gift of always being able to see it. But no one knows what Greot is. Is it the trillion-eyed god? The history of everything told grain-by-grain? Prophecy? The magic of creativity?
Joe can’t know; all he wants to do is draw comics and listen to music. Then one day, after climbing up to the ancient tower on Brendle hill, he meets an old writer of pulp SF books who is determined to pass on the power and joy of telling stories. And everything changes.
Decades later Joe is a successful SF novelist, and the time has come to tell his story, not only of how he became a writer but also how the secrets of the dust were revealed to him, one grain at a time.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
The Dust tells the story…
1968, Lancashire: It is Joe Sutter’s last summer before going to secondary school. His world is like ours but beyond and beside what we know is Greot; a vast swirling rainbow of many-coloured dust. It settles on the dead, it swathes cities and fields. Joe is one of the few who have the gift of always being able to see it. But no one knows what Greot is. Is it the trillion-eyed god? The history of everything told grain-by-grain? Prophecy? The magic of creativity?
Joe can’t know; all he wants to do is draw comics and listen to music. Then one day, after climbing up to the ancient tower on Brendle hill, he meets an old writer of pulp SF books who is determined to pass on the power and joy of telling stories. And everything changes.
Decades later Joe is a successful SF novelist, and the time has come to tell his story, not only of how he became a writer but also how the secrets of the dust were revealed to him, one grain at a time.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Praise for this book
"Moon Over Brendle is a love story, and a coming of age, and a slice of fantastical sci-fi with a hefty dose of realist dust - just to keep everyone on their toes. Whether you call it Koag, Greot, Specklesoft, or simply storytelling, the mysterious power of words shines through this unique tale about one person's life spent as a witness to life, with all of its wonder, history, and ghosts. This is a perfectly evocative ode to stories and the people that make them." - Laura Elliott
"Moon over Brendle is evocative of a time and place, a sense of the world being mysterious and malleable, a place of art and dreams and endless possibility that we can make if we so choose. It is also a story about how so few of us look to do that. Part ghost story, part magical coming of age tale but most of all a story about stories, memory and the ties that connect us all." - Stewart Hotston
"Moon Over Brendle is a transporting, generous novel, creating much to think on, and richly conjuring hopes and fears. It's an immersive and vivid adventure." - Aliya Whiteley
"Moon over Brendle is evocative of a time and place, a sense of the world being mysterious and malleable, a place of art and dreams and endless possibility that we can make if we so choose. It is also a story about how so few of us look to do that. Part ghost story, part magical coming of age tale but most of all a story about stories, memory and the ties that connect us all." - Stewart Hotston
"Moon Over Brendle is a transporting, generous novel, creating much to think on, and richly conjuring hopes and fears. It's an immersive and vivid adventure." - Aliya Whiteley
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