Sam Byers’ debut novel, Idiopathy, is a glibly-humorous portrait of thirtysomething discontent – a wry examination of boredom and narcissism in contemporary society. Erstwhile lovers Katherine and ...

"Ubi pus, ibi evacua,” reads the epigraph of Idiopathy, Sam Byers’s savagely brilliant debut novel. It translates as “where [there is] pus, evacuate [it]”, which is what he proceeds to do, ...

“When had normality become so bloody weird?” asks Daniel in Idiopathy, Sam Byers’s state-of-his-generation debut novel. The question could have been posed by any of the book’s three protagonists.

The debut novel from Sam Byers is a brightly dyspeptic comedy that traces the stillborn careers, love affairs and life ambitions of three close friends in their thirties, as they grow irreparably ...