‘[An] utterly gripping and highly original debut novel…a tour de force of virtuoso writing that explodes off the page’ DAILY MAIL ‘As if Philip K Dick and David Mitchell had collaborated on an episode of The West Wing … unsettling, gripping and hugely thought-provoking’ FHM ‘A fiercely-imagined dystopia of the near future. Intelligent, visionary and compulsively readable’ ALEX PRESTON, author of The Revelations ‘A literary post-apocalyptic novel built around a clever conceit’ GUARDIAN

• James will be published across two HarperCollins imprints: THE TESTIMONY will be published by Blue Door, and Voyager will be publishing his science-fiction title THE EXPLORER in 2013• The Testimony is Independence Day crossed with The Stand. The literary equivalent of Flashforward and Inception• James is published by Blue Door and Voyager and is an exciting new voice for HarperCollins• James Smythe was selected as one of four authors for Welsh Publisher Parthian’s “Bright Young Things” promotion. He was recognised as a future talent for his astonishing debut Hereditation. Competition: Field Two; Field One. Lauren Beukes;Stephen King; Iain Banks; Douglas Coupland; Don DeLillo; Simon Winstanley;