Guy Gunaratne’s blistering debut follows three young men on a London council estate over 48 mad hours, when nowhere is safe and everything is at stake.
Guy Gunaratne was born in 1984 and is a British novelist, journalist and filmmaker.
He studied for a film and television degree at Brunel University in London and then current affairs journalism at City, University of London. His first novel In Our Mad and Furious City won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He currently holds the position of Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge (2019 - 2022) and is based between London and Malmö.