Model Actress Whatever

Kim Newman is an award-winning writer, critic, journalist and broadcaster who lives in London. He is a contributing editor to the UK film magazine Empire, and writes its popular monthly segment, 'The Cult of Kim Newman'. He also writes for assorted publications including Sight & Sound, The Dark Side and The Guardian. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV, and is the chief writer of the BBC TV series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema. You can keep up to date with Kim's events and writing via his website johnnyalucard.com. Find him on Twitter @annodracula.

Praise for Model Actress Whatever:Anarchic, exuberant and endlessly inventive. This may be the best superhero movie I've ever read.-M.R. Carey, internationally bestselling author of Infinity GateKim Newman's florid fantasies can't be pitched as a cross between this and that, they're an explosion of genre TNT in pop-art baubles of verbal delight that fizz on the page.-Stephen Volk, writer of Ghostwatch and The Good UnknownNewman's trademarks are razor-sharp prose, a biting wit and big finishes you never see coming but always feel inevitably perfect - all of which are fully on display in Model Actress Whatever. This is a spectacular, alt-reality superhero story, almost operatic in its scale, and splendidly Newmanesque. Highly recommended.-Angela A.G.-Slatter, award-winning author of The Cold HouseWhat if Austin Powers (only filmed by Brits) had a baby with EastEnders (also filmed by Brits), and it grew up to be a (British) version of the Adam West era Batman, driving a Jensen Interceptor? Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files seriesSet in an alternate history Enlightened by a magically mysterious Beatles' chord, Model Actress Whatever brings Newman's Diogenes Club series bang up to date and dives deep into the superhero mythos. Fast and furiously funny, exuberantly imaginative and achingly hip, this is Newman at the top of his game.-Paul McAuley, author of Loss ProtocolSomehow manages to be futuristic and nostalgic at the same time M.A. Bennett, author of No EscapeWhen it comes to the dazzling creation of a fantasy world which is both like and unlike our own, Kim Newman has no peers. This sardonically funny vision of empty celebrity, and quirky superheroes set in an alternative London has all the untrammelled wordplay and inventiveness of his masterpiece Anno Dracula.-Barry Forshaw, Financial TimesWith Model Actress Whatever, the always transgressive Kim Newman subverts the superhero genre with all the aplomb that he brought to vampires in Anno Dracula.-Stephen Jones, award-winning editor and writerThe powerline connection between Michael Moorcock and the spangly multiverse lunacy of the present moment, this is an exciting, literary, urgent venture into what happens to super heroes as they cross the Atlantic, and why. Newman transcends pastiche and ends up telling the truth very loudly. Unmissable.-Paul Cornell, author of the Witches of Lychford series