Patrick Langley’s debut novel, Arkady, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Deborah Rogers Writers Prize. He lives in London.

‘If Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black were written by John Banville channelling M. John Harrison, the result would look something like this. And yet Langley has made something new and unexpected about how the present is, necessarily and always, an echo corridor of the past. Beautifully written, powered by a wonderfully intelligent conceptual dynamo, and deftly sprung with surprises, The Variations is an utterly original book about haunting. It is strange, resonant, and, yes, haunting.’— Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others

Patrick Langley’s debut novel, Arkady, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Deborah Rogers Writers Prize. He lives in London.

‘If Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black were written by John Banville channelling M. John Harrison, the result would look something like this. And yet Langley has made something new and unexpected about how the present is, necessarily and always, an echo corridor of the past. Beautifully written, powered by a wonderfully intelligent conceptual dynamo, and deftly sprung with surprises, The Variations is an utterly original book about haunting. It is strange, resonant, and, yes, haunting.’— Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others

Patrick Langley’s debut novel, Arkady, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Deborah Rogers Writers Prize. He lives in London.

‘If Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black were written by John Banville channelling M. John Harrison, the result would look something like this. And yet Langley has made something new and unexpected about how the present is, necessarily and always, an echo corridor of the past. Beautifully written, powered by a wonderfully intelligent conceptual dynamo, and deftly sprung with surprises, The Variations is an utterly original book about haunting. It is strange, resonant, and, yes, haunting.’— Neel Mukherjee, author of The Lives of Others