Mark D B Waugh

Drives is a hybrid novel of trauma, memory, and forensic autofiction told in 95 fractured chapters. Set in the long tail of a crash-national and personal-it follows ghostly narrators, and unreliable witnesses, navigating Covid and post-Brexit bureaucracy, loss, and mythic revenge. Blending autofiction, philosophical speculation, and experimental structure, the novel dissects the ruins of culture and the crisis of reading in the post-truth era.
Echoing the works of Angela Carter, Camus, and J. G. Ballard, it offers a noir satire on sovereignty, gendered violence, and literary memory. Part detective story, part ghost archive, part bureaucratic comedy, Drives is a poetic and politically charged fiction for readers who still believe in the dangerous magic of books.