{"product_id":"black-bag-trade-paperback","title":"Black Bag (Trade Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER NOW! The estimated release date is 15 October 2026. Please note your complete order will only ship once the Pre-Order item becomes available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr Blend's students react to someone zipped into on oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of autumn term lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own, in particular can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag? Meanwhile, the actor's childhood friend and flatmate forms a vision for monetising this new situation . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luke Kennard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47772593750194,"sku":"9781399826129","price":437.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781399826129.jpg?v=1785373242","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/black-bag-trade-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}