Author: Ben Pester
Publisher: Granta
Hardback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Sam says… The Expansion Project is a slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family to ask: at what point do we realise we have stepped out of the life we thought we had? It casts light on the fog of corporate language which makes the world unrecognisable, and which wraps itself around our frailties until we also cannot recognise ourselves. This is a luminous and startling novel – the juries of the Goldsmith’s and Nero prizes clearly agree!