'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk. 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Offill. It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of...

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing...