Vulture
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Publishing:3rd Jul '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
"Brave, funny and beautifully written.” - Martin McDonagh, writer and director
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots, and a tragi-comic coming-of-age novel.
An ambitious young journalist, Sara is sent to cover a war from the Beach Hotel in Gaza. The four-star hotel is a global media hub, promising safety and generator-powered internet, with hotel staff catering tirelessly to the needs of the world’s media, even as their own homes and families are under threat.
Sara is determined to launch her career as a star correspondent. So, when her fixer Nasser refuses to set up the dangerous story she thinks will win her a front page, she turns instead to Fadi, the youngest member of a powerful militant family. Driven by the demons of her entitled yet damaging childhood, Sara will stop at nothing to prove herself in this war, even if it means bringing disaster upon those around her.
Greenwood’s debut novel brings readers into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and with audacity and humour depicts the media’s complicity in this ongoing tragedy.
"Brave, funny and beautifully written.” * Martin McDonagh, writer and director *
“Razor sharp and poignantly funny, Vulture is a remarkable debut. Greenwood writes with rage, wit and deep empathy, exposing the hypocrisies of the war media complex and making us confront our own complicity as readers in the process." * Ammar Kalia, author of A Person Is A Prayer *
"Vulture is the Scoop of our age - an absurdist tale of western media cynicism exposed by the unending horror of Gaza. Greenwood is a natural born writer and in Sara Byrne, she has created an antiheroine narrator whose view of the world is so darkly acerbic and sharply observed that, even as Sara appals us more with every turned page, we cannot bear to leave her side for a moment." * Julian Borger, author of I Seek a Kind Person *
"Martha Gelhorn meets Martin Amis." * Michael Hodges, author of AK47: A History of the People’s Gun *
“A powerful and gripping tale that is brave and brilliant. Greenwood explodes the romanticism of the foreign war correspondent with a sharp, satirical intelligence that is funny, moving and unforgettable.” * Cosmo Landesman, journalist *
ISBN: 9781787705791
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300 pages