‘Newland's work is tender but urgent, grounded but visionary. Risks don't frighten him. These highly imaginative, often cautionary tales seem the product of a world governed by outrage, anxiety and unease. You won't forget them in a hurry. Nor should you’
RUPERT THOMSON        

‘The stories in Cosmogramma are shot through with a sense of foreboding, a feeling that we as a species are heading for self-annihilation if we don’t get our act together and fast. In that sense, and in several others, the stories feel unsettlingly contemporary and can – and should – be read as a last call to action. "The Sanofka Principle" in particular bent my mind out of shape, in a good way. Now there’s a story that requires (and repays) close reading!’
STEPHEN THOMPSON        

Praise for A River Called Time:

‘A real gem of a book . . . There are so many brilliant parallels drawn between the world we live in as well as gentle prods towards the reality we could create . . . an excellent, beautiful read that will make you think while taking your breath away’
DOROTHY KOOMSON
  
‘A masterful reimagining of the African diaspora's influence on England and on the world . . . No other way to put it, this book is true Black magic’
VICTOR LaVALLE        

‘Courttia's writing is rich with passion and humanity. He manages to convey great depth without ever losing his lightness of touch. A rare feat only reserved for the few’
STEVE McQUEEN        

‘A vast and wildly ambitious piece of speculative fiction that asks what the world would look like if slavery and colonialism never existed’
Observer        

‘Gloriously enthralling. An immersive, ambitious reimagining of the city from a formidable British voice. Newland’s magnum opus’
IRENOSEN OKOJIE

‘Astonishing speculative fiction, interrogating social inequality, the complexities of truth and the very essence of what it is to be human, all in Newland's precise and powerful prose’
NIKESH SHUKLA        

‘If you want to know the story of Britain, it’s really important to read Newland’
LEMN SISSAY, Observer