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Emily Berry: Ben Pester’s Surreal Scrutiny, 25 September 2025

The Expansion Project 
by Ben Pester.
Granta, 214 pp., £16.99, August, 978 1 80351 258 7
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... The Expansion Project​ is Ben Pester’s first novel. There is little about its opening that hints at the weirdness of the imagination which created it, though a reader familiar with Pester’s short stories may have some suspicions. The title story of Am I in the Right Place? (2020) features a ‘Mondelux single-man-in-a-bedsit oven with rotisserie setting’ that turns out to be a portal to childhood memories ...

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