Havoc, in its Third Year

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

Signed and dated by the author to title page at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in the year of publication.

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