Black Bag

Luke Kennard (author)

A penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . .

A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.

'A masterpiece from one of the best writers at work today . . . Wildly original and funny, yet always underpinned by depth of feeling, this is a novel like no other' JOE DUNTHORNE, author of Submarine

'A campus novel for our end times . . . Black Bag fizzes with wit and invention' Observer

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Murray
• Publication date ‏ : ‎  2026
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
• ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9781399826112