Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Honor 2014, that is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one from the UK’s brightest new literary talents.

Vic returned from war suffering from his nightmares. His once happy relationship to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine guaranteed salvation, purging him of most memory.

Now the machines are gone, announced as well controversial, the side-effects as well harmful. But within Beth’s flat can be an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories could be place back which she can restore her husband piece by piece.

A Frankenstein story for the 21st century, THE DEVICE is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science as well as the horrors of like.