Black Bag

Broke and without acting work, the narrator agrees to help Dr Blend, a psychology professor, with an experiment: for a whole autumn term he will sit silently in the last row of a lecture theatre, sealed inside a huge leather bag, so that Blend can study the students' reactions. He takes to the part eagerly, but it sets off effects nobody expected. Another academic, who works on post-humanism, begins an investigation of her own into whether a person in a bag can be loved, and the man he grew up with and now shares a flat with sees a business opportunity in the whole affair.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Satire, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United Kingdom

First published

2026

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9781399826112 (John Murray, United Kingdom)

9781638933380 (Zando, United States)

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