Description: Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece. A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love. Gold title *James is an amazing young talent published by both Blue Door and Voyager. With a projected book per year, James is a novelist who can really deliver. * Reviewers have already likened The Machine to early Ian McEwan, Iain Banks and JG Ballard. *James has received great support from booksellers and bloggers as well as the tech-savvy community for his previous novels, THE TESTIMONY, and THE EXPLORER. * Online presence through Twitter @jpsmythe and james-smythe.com, James knows how to network with the literary community. * James's fortnightly blog on the fiction of Stephen King (Guardian online) regularly receives some of the highest reader comments for the Guardian Online's Culture section, exposing him to an ever-growing number of fans. * The Machine is a novel which will appeal to both men and women with the ability to make the cut for the Booker Competition: JG Ballard, Iain Banks, Nick Harkaway

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