Novelty: The Worst Man in the World Wants a Word with You

'Darkly funny and brilliantly unhinged' — Kirkus Reviews


'A chaotic black comedy about a man with a messiah complex.' — Kirkus Reviews


If Fight Club, Money, and The Motorcycle Diaries had a three-way, Novelty would be their web-toed, mutant lovechild.


Finn Balor is a depraved billionaire and polymath with a vendetta against fate and an insatiable appetite for hedonism. Obsessed with the idea that free will is a fallacy, he invents the Oracle—a quantum device capable of reshaping reality.


Determined to break the chains of causality, Finn founds Q-Path, a radical underground sect, and unleashes his fanatical acolytes upon an unsuspecting world. But as Q-Path spreads chaos, Finn is forced to confront an unsettling question: is he humanity’s saviour or its saboteur? And is Finn Balor really who he claims to be?


Praise for Novelty:


'Darkly funny and brilliantly unhinged' 

—Kirkus Reviews


'Dermot effectively plunges readers into the chaotic and likely unbalanced mind of his protagonist.' 

—Kirkus Reviews


'Expect the unexpected might be a cliché, but it fits this deeply original novel nicely.' 

— Independent Book Review


'Akin to The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin... Liberate humanity from the fate of determinism with this reality-shaking book'

— Independent Book Review


Voiced by Stephen Dalton

Stephen Dalton is a highly sought after male voiceover artist. He is also a classically trained actor who obtained a degree in acting from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011.