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Martin MacInnes 3 Books Collection Set
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Martin MacInnes 3 Books Collection Set (In Ascension, Gathering Evidence, Infinite Ground):
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In Ascension [Paperback]
Gathering Evidence [Paperback]
Infinite Ground [Paperback]
Martin MacInnes 3 Books Collection Set (In Ascension, Gathering Evidence, Infinite Ground):
Titles In This
In Ascension [Paperback]
Gathering Evidence [Paperback]
Infinite Ground [Paperback]
1104 pages, Paperback
Published November 8, 2023
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Martin MacInnes
7 books432 followersMartin MacInnes has been published in 13 languages and is the winner of a Manchester Fiction Prize, a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His third novel, In Ascension (2023), was longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Kitschies award, and won the Arthur C. Clarke award, Blackwell's Book of the Year, and the Saltire Prize for Fiction. In Ascension is a Times bestseller and has been optioned for film.
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May 27, 2025
MacInnes's third novel got longlisted for the Booker last year and honestly, I'm still not over it. In Ascension completely broke my brain in the best possible way. It follows Leigh, this marine biologist who had a rough childhood in Rotterdam and then just... goes everywhere. A remote island, the bottom of the ocean, the Mojave Desert, eventually space. But saying it like that makes it sound simple when this book is anything but.
It's this sprawling, gorgeous, incredibly detailed thing that just pulls you under. Leigh's work gets all secretive and weird, involving these mysterious phenomena connected to her deep-sea research, and MacInnes writes about her algae studies with the same tender attention he gives to her messy relationship with her mom, her sister, everyone in her orbit.
Don't expect neat answers - this book doesn't do that. Instead you get the whole messy, beautiful texture of someone's entire life, all tangled up with everyone else's. Reading it felt like going on that deep-sea dive with Leigh, like seeing a world I thought I knew suddenly become completely, impossibly strange and new. I'm still thinking about it months later.
It's this sprawling, gorgeous, incredibly detailed thing that just pulls you under. Leigh's work gets all secretive and weird, involving these mysterious phenomena connected to her deep-sea research, and MacInnes writes about her algae studies with the same tender attention he gives to her messy relationship with her mom, her sister, everyone in her orbit.
Don't expect neat answers - this book doesn't do that. Instead you get the whole messy, beautiful texture of someone's entire life, all tangled up with everyone else's. Reading it felt like going on that deep-sea dive with Leigh, like seeing a world I thought I knew suddenly become completely, impossibly strange and new. I'm still thinking about it months later.
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