The Vivisectors

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In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss.

When a campus scandal erupts, Agathe's boss instructs her to gather information by befriending Adam, the student at the heart of it. She soon finds herself caught up in the events tearing the city apart, and increasingly drawn to him.

A new kind of love story for a broken era, from the author of The Doloriad.

'Genuinely experimental, relentlessly and rollickingly told' Booker Prize judges 2026

Author: Missouri Williams

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026

Published on 21 May 2026 by Fourth Estate.