{"product_id":"black-bag","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooker Prize Longlist Nominated 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60245550072142,"sku":"9781399826112","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/6775\/7390\/files\/9781399826112.jpg?v=1785325873","url":"https:\/\/intothewest.co.uk\/products\/black-bag","provider":"Into the West Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}