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Black Bag

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Black Bag by Luke Kennard

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  • Booker Prize 2026 longlist

By Luke Kennard

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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…

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05 Aug 2026

Brilliant for teenagers who are questioning the rise of technocracy, masculinity and the role of the arts.

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