This World Is Not Yours

How it reads

This World Is Not Yours is science fiction (dystopian science fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an invented world, in the future, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity, survival and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 176 pages it's a single-sitting book. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.