God Mode - Matthew Haigh

God Mode - Matthew Haigh

Matthew Haigh

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Published 16 November 2026

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  • Pages · 96 pages, Not illustrated
  • Publication Date · 16/11/2026
  • Genre · Fiction: special features
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A vast system crash in the virus garden. Matthew Haigh's second collection is a single, electrifying sequence on chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplant and the body re-entering the world. With the cut-up wit and pop-cultural intensity that made Death Magazine a Polari-longlisted debut - now grafted onto something graver and more interior - God Mode tracks an illness through hospital wards, faux-medical letters, surgical theatres and the haunted spaces of online life. It is a queer survival narrative, a body horror, a prayer book for the age of the algorithm. A book about being saved, and what is lost in the saving.

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