A Man Lies Dreaming

Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, A Man Lies Dreaming is a twisted masterpiece from a writer at the top of his game. Adolf Hitler is transported to London, 1939, where he makes a feeble living as a private eye, while in another time and place, a man lies dreaming...

1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism and ekes out a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye. But in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.

'A twisted masterpiece' Guardian
1939. In a grotty corner of London, in a flat above a shop, a private eye known as Wolf keeps his office. The city is in the throes of a very British Fascism, and Wolf is far from the life he left behind in Germany, before the Fall. Business hasn't been good, so when a glamorous Jewish heiress comes through his door, he has no choice but to take on her case.

It's a decision Wolf will soon regret.

For in another time and place, a man lies dreaming. Once a Yiddish pulp writer, but now imprisoned in a hell of humanity's making, Shomer creates lurid tales of revenge in his sleep...

Prescient, darkly funny and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time.