The Tunnels — Ian Watson
"The Tunnels embodies a very English sense of absurdity, putting Lewis Carroll, Monty Python and Douglas Adams in a blender with a generous helping of pop-culture references and fantasy motifs.” - Financial Times
The Tunnels is a suburban science fantasy ghost story featuring gangsters, magicians, avenging clowns, occult boot fairs, spectral staircases, ancient scrolls, chilling incantations and tables that defy the laws of reality, alongside lashings of banoffee pie, seditionary cupcakes, cider brewed by an anarchist collective, mind-blowing curry and discount egg slicers.
It is both a doomed love story and a hymn to community, with just a tiny bit of revolution stirred in for good measure.
It was published on Thursday February 26th, 2026.
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Secret Name Books is an independent science fiction and speculative fiction publisher based in London.