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Manchester, 2025. Local mechanic Sol steals old vehicles to meet the demand for spares. But when Sol's partner impulsively jacks a luxury model, Sol finds himself caught up in a nightmarish trans-dimensional human trafficking conspiracy. Hidden in the stolen car is a voiceless, three-armed woman called Y. She's had her memory removed and undertaken a harrowing journey into a world she only vaguely recognises. And someone waiting in the UK expects her delivery at all costs. Now Sol and Y are on the run from both Y's traffickers and the organisation's faithful products. With the help of a dangerous triggerman and Sol's ex, they must uncover the true, terrifying extent of the trafficking operation, or it's all over. Not that there was much hope to start with. A novel about the horror of exploitation and the weight of love,Graftimagines a country in which too many people are only worth what's on their price tag. File Under-Science Fiction Y the Last Girl / So Much to Answer For / Under the Skin / Armed & Dangerous

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England as a wasteland ruled by crime, car jacking as a doorwayto love and morality, and plenty of body horror to mix with yourposthumanism: Graft is a brilliant eulogy for our ruined future. - Edward J. Rathke, author of Twilight of the Wolves and Noir: A Love Story Graft is exactly what science fiction should be right now: it's brutally dark, twisted at its heart, with an incredible sense of foreboding about where we could end up if our mistakes aren't put right. Beautifully written, engagingly compulsive, it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. -James Smythe, writer of The Testimony, The Explorer, The Machine, No Harm Can Come to a Good Man, Way Down Dark.

Hill captures the dark underbelly of Manchester in visceral prose. There is a unique horror in Y s predicament, and Hill renders it in chilling terms. Hill s world is tinged with a sense of foreboding in this refreshing take on a futuristic mystery. <b>Publishers Weekly</b> The collapse is already here, it s just not evenly distributed. Graft is a compelling, fast-moving work of austerity science fiction. High tech rubs up against low lives, battered Britishness struggles to get by in the face of imminent inhumanities. A powerful neo-noir. <b>Matthew De Abaitua</b>, author of<i>If Then</i> <i>Graft</i>is exactly what science fiction should be right now: it s brutally dark, twisted at its heart, with an incredible sense of forebodingabout where we could end up if our mistakes aren t put right. Beautifully written, engagingly compulsive, it s one of the best books I ve read in a long time. <b>- James Smythe</b>, Author of<i>The Testimony</i>, <i>The Explorer</i>, <i>The Machine</i>and more England as a wasteland ruled by crime, car jacking as a doorwayto love and morality, and plenty of body horror to mix with yourposthumanism: <i>Graft</i>is a brilliant eulogy for our ruined future. <b>- Edward J Rathke</b>, author of<i>Noir: A Love Story</i> Hill s prose is an utter dream, the sooty grit of his 2025 Manchester practically coats the reader s hands. <b>Bad Cantina</b> Hill s mean and broken future Manchester is pretty inimitable. You ll meet some amazing characters navigating some profoundly dangerous situations in an environment of true weirdness that has a touch of the William Gibsons about it whilst at the same time presenting a science fiction that s very personal, very British. In a word, it s fantastic. <b>Nina Allen</b> <b>For Matt Hill s debut novel, <i>The Folded Man</b> Captures the smell and essence of Britain through its main character, his desires, addictions and strange courage. Written with direct vividness that keeps one inside its totally realised world. - <b>Stephen Fry</b>, Dundee International Book Prize judge 2012 Some combination of Raymond Chandler, <i>Trainspotting</i>, and Philip K. Dick, Hill s unsettling novel is not an escapist fantasy, but rather a call to arms, a plea to change the future. <b>Publishers Weekly A memorable debut with pathos, dark humour and true heart. <b>Interzone</b>

England as a wasteland ruled by crime, car jacking as a doorwayto love and morality, and plenty of body horror to mix with yourposthumanism: Graft is a brilliant eulogy for our ruined future. - Edward J. Rathke, author of Twilight of the Wolves and Noir: A Love Story

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Matt Hill was born in 1984 and grew up in Tameside, Greater Manchester. After completing a journalism degree at Cardiff University, he trained as a copywriter. He now lives and works in London. His first novel,The Folded Man, was runner-up in the 2012 Dundee International Book Prize. You can find Matt online at his website-matthewhillswebsite.co.uk, on Twitter@matthewhill.

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