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Renard Press snaps up third novel from Hood
Renard Press has snapped up My Book of Revelations, a novel from "experimental writer" Iain Hood.
Publisher Will Dady acquired world rights directly from the author. The synopsis for My Book of Revelations reads: "The countdown to the millennium has begun, and people are losing their heads. A so-called Y2K expert gives a presentation to Scotland’s eccentric Tech Laird T S Mole’s entourage in Edinburgh, and soon long hours, days, weeks and months fill with seemingly chaotic and frantic work on the ‘bug problem’. Soon enough it’ll be just minutes and seconds to go to midnight. Is the world about to end, or will everyone just wake up the next day with the same old New Year’s Day hangover?"
Hood’s debut novel This Good Book was the first title in Renard’s contemporary fiction list and he has since written Every Trick In The Book, also published with Renard.
Hood commented: "My Book of Revelations offers a vision of Scotland on the cusp of something enormous; whether that’s the end of an old society and the start of a new one or just a huge hangover remains to be seen."
My Book of Revelations "moves from historical revelations to the personal, and climaxes in the bang and flare of fireworks, exploding myths and offering a glimpse a scandal that will rock Scotland into the 21st century".
Dady said: "It’s an absolute pleasure to be able to announce another collaboration with Iain. It was our pleasure to publish his debut novel, This Good Book, back in 2021 – which was, in fact, the very first contemporary title on the Renard shelves, and I remain convinced that it’s one of the finest pieces of literature of our time.
"My Book of Revelations is very much a return to the same scene, although this time in 1990s Edinburgh rather than 1980s Glasgow, and it’s worth reading for the extraordinary attention to detail and beautiful evocation of place and era – but, as with Iain’s other novels, it’s packed with such joyful linguistic and genre-cracking surprises that it won’t be easily forgotten."
