Migraine

In a weather-ravaged, ruined London, unpredictable storms trigger epidemic hallucinations and migraines. Newly afflicted Ellis journeys across the dangerous city with former bookshop owner Sam to find his ex-girlfriend and reclaim his past. A bookseller at London’s Burley Fisher and publisher at Peninsula Press, Fisher’s post-apocalyptic cli-fi is blackly funny, as when Sam describes protecting stacks of paperbacks in the old bookshop, “don’t know what to do with them all… at first it was just stopping people burning them for fuel”. Perfect for fans of JG Ballard, Iain Sinclair or Emily St John Mandel. Fisher’s debut novel The Chameleon received the Betty Trask Award.