All God's Creatures

Mild-mannered editor Ben Fairweather is horrified when his genteel religious magazine is taken over by a fanatical movement that believes animals are closer to God than humans and should receive Holy Communion. Amid a national religious revival, this belief becomes mainstream, and he is cancelled as a petphobic bigot.

Reinventing himself as a nightclub pianist, Ben meets journalist Anita Scott, who is bent on exposing a newly ennobled Russian oligarch as a cultural vandal. But Lord Ogorodnikov’s agenda is far more sinister than they realise, and together they are drawn into a world of spies, art forgery and murder, with their own lives on the line.

Anthony Gardner ingeniously blends intrigue with sharp satire in a story that is both thrilling and darkly funny.

‘Hilarious, joyous and astute.’ – Nicholas Coleridge

‘An uplifting, hilarious, smart and edgy dissection of our bizarre capacity to imagine passing fashions as cornerstone philosophies to live by. Gardner is one of those wonderful writers who hints at events that lie ahead, allowing the reader to try to imagine how the strands might eventually come together. A wonderfully enjoyable tonic.’ – Irish Examiner