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Author: Please, Mikey

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 April 2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Corsair) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘The Expanded Earth series’ series.

Hardback | 448 pages, Approximately 83 b/w illustrations (1 chapter head per chapter plus additional full-page
224 x 164 x 38 | 796g

‘Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness’ Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of Everything Everywhere All At Once’The Expanded Earth genuinely changed the way I look at the world around me. I loved the fantastic, horrifying, heartwarming, mind-boggling adventure of it. Mikey please is a singular breed of genius and this book proves it yet again’ Emma Hooper, author of Etta and Otto and Russell and JamesHumankind has been reduced to the height of a handspan – a transformation that is both potentially lethal and exasperatingly inconvenient.

On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape. But as their journey unfolds, the more the question persists – are they still truly human, or has their reduction in size marked the beginning of a descent into savagery, an evolution into something other? Elsewhere, one week earlier, Professor Elizabeth Goodwin makes a monumental discovery – God is alive and physically among us, but not in the form we’ve been taught to expect. As Goodwin prepares to make first contact with the omnipresent ocean-spanning creature, forces conspire in the wings, and the spectre of imminent catastrophe inches closer and closer still . . .

Dark, witty, and wildly ambitious, Mikey Please guides us into The Expanded Earth, a high-stakes adventure packed with jeopardy and life-affirming beauty – a story that ultimately celebrates the capacity of small things to effect great change. The first in a spellbinding trilogy, this beautifully illustrated debut novel marks the arrival of a new talent and perhaps a new genre – the world of the micropocalypse.