Author(s): Tim Pears

Literature

John and his brother Greg have turned their father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest potato dealer. Now ambitious John wants to improve the world by introducing, through the potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an alternative to injections. But deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. John is becoming late for work, his head spinning and his car circling the ring road as he tries to figure out how he is going to confess to his brother, and how they are going to hide the evidence. Wake Up is an unsettling, provocative and funny novel from one of our finest contemporary writers.