Havoc, in its Third Year

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [x], 244, [2]. Cream wraps, printed in red and black.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 2005 Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year Award. Longlisted for the 2004 MAN Booker Prize.

A dark tale of Puritan fanaticism, set in a northern English town in the 1630s, in the decade before Cromwell and his Roundheads took over the kingdom. Author was short-listed for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award for his book The Catastrophist. "Havoc is Bennett's best novel to date, and deserves a significant place in the modern canon." – Paul Taylor, The Observer