Caledonian Road – The Sunday Times bestseller

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Caledonian Road centres on Campbell Flynn, an art historian turned media personality drifting into middle age with confidence and complacency intact. Known for his sharp opinions and public profile, he treats the world as a performance, assuming irony will protect him from consequence. It will not.

Enter Milo Mangasha, a brilliant and unsettling student whose background and ambitions place him far from Campbell’s comfortable sphere. Milo brings with him ideas that intrigue his tutor and a keen understanding of how power, desire and reputation really work. What begins as intellectual fascination soon edges into something more dangerous.

Set in contemporary London, Caledonian Road is a novel about class, ambition and the illusions of cultural authority. As the balance of control shifts, the story exposes the fragility of status and the cost of underestimating those who are watching closely.