Here Goes Nothing

Steve Toltz

Sceptre €24

Angus Mooney announces his own murder in the novel’s opening line. What follows is a wildly comic riff on love, mortality and metaphysics; an extended vision of the afterlife that resembles Dante on magic mushrooms. Meanwhile, in the land of the living, a more devastating virus than Covid is laying waste to humanity. Thought-provoking, inventive and full of literary pyrotechnics, this remarkable novel is unlike anything you will read this year.