Tony Tulathimutte for Rejection

A very special complimentary evening with the author of the runaway fiction hit of 2025: Rejection!

This novel has taken our bookselling cohort by storm. It's brilliantly filthy, bitingly clever and comes from one of the brightest stars of contemporary fiction, Tony Tulathimutte. The National Book Award longlistee is visiting us all the way from the USA and we want to celebrate his latest book with as many of our readers as possible - so we're offering places to this event free of charge!

If you reserve a place and cannot make it, please let us know by sending an email to bath@toppingbooks.co.uk or giving us a call at 01225 428111.

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet.

We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn't getting him laid; a young woman's unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer's flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake. As these characters pop up in each other's dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a losers' manifesto, Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.

Praise for Rejection:

'Utterly inimitable' RAVEN LEILANI

'Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

'Symbiotically serious and funny' MEGAN NOLAN

'A book of mad, madcap genius' GARTH GREENWELL

'Most insane, funniest book I've ever read' BOWEN YANG

'Perverse, profane, and profound ... will make your skin crawl' Esquire, Best Books of the Year

'Divinely appalling, almost sublimely ghastly ... It is quite difficult to laugh so hard while also being goldfish-mouthed at its audacity' The Scotsman

'With the prose-dial turned up to gasp-inducing Nabokov and Amis levels... one of the boldest works in recent memory' Granta

'Gutting... Cleverly satirizes a heartless world' TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of the Year