"This will probably go down as the definitive Scottish novel of the Occupy movement, tracking radicals, hackers and internet visionaries across a modern, Orwellian landscape that feels all too real. Let #freetopiary free your mind." --Alan Bissett, author of Boyracers and Pack Men. Peter Burnett is the winner of a Scottish Arts Council First Book Award for The Machine Doctor. Praise for Machine Doctor, winner of the Scottish Arts Council First Book Award and shortlisted for Scottish Book of the Year: ". . . an exhilarating and anarchic comedy shot through with a withering social commentary."Scotland on Sunday ". . . a superbly written book, a fast-paced novel of roller-coaster proportions. Burnett is a brilliant new talent."The Journal ". . . an ambitious, multi-voiced satire on the soul-destroying mind-numbing effects of computers in the 21st century. . . fast-paced, insightful and frequently hilarious."The List ". . . satire as sharp as a sponge."Sunday Herald Praise for Odium "a gloriously misanthropic and bilious treatise on the decadent, immoral and inane nature of western European life."Independent on Sunday "...this is breathtaking stuff."Scotland on Sunday
