Boxer, Beetle

This is a novel for people with breeding.

Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase.

There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles.

It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining.

We hope you are too.

Winner of Writers' Guild Book Awards 2011 (UK)
Winner of Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut 2012 (UK)
Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2010 (UK)
Short-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2011 (UK)

“'This first novel is as oddball and rambunctious as it sounds. It's also funny, raw and stylish.'”

a piece of staggeringly energetic intellectual slapstick . . . it's crammed with strange, funny and interesting things - Sam Leith, Guardian

an enjoyable confection; witty, ludicrous and entertaining - James Urquhart, Financial Times

An astonishing debut...buzzing with energy, fizzing with ideas, intoxicating in its language, Boxer, Beetle is sexy, intelligent and deliriously funny - Jake Arnott

A rambunctious, deftly-plotted delight of a debut - Observer

Ned Beauman's astonishingly assured debut starts as it means to go on: confident, droll, and not in the best of taste . . . Many first novels are judged promising. Boxer, Beetle arrives fully formed: original, exhilarating and hugely enjoyable. - Peter Parker, Sunday Times

Frighteningly assured - Katie Guest, Independent on Sunday

Exuberant . . . There are politics, black comedy, experimentation and wild originality - and I haven't even got to the beetles. Terrific. - The Times

Debut bout is a real knockout . . . dazzling - Daily Express

Ned Beauman was born in 1985 and lives in London. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther and the Guardian. This is his first novel.

This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase. There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous bravado of youth. And there are lots of beetles. It is clever. It is distinctive. It is entertaining. We hope you are too.

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