Justin has published two novels. The Tangle in 2021 (White Rabbit) and The Trial of Jonah in 2025 (Velocity Press). His next novel The MineralTail (Velocity Press) is due in 2026.
buy The Tangle here.
https://store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/the-tangle
buy The Trial Of Jonah here.
Words about Justin’s work.
‘The Trial of Jonah has the humour and the heart, the meaning and the mixtapes, that you might earnestly hope for from Justin Robertson. It is a novel of great brilliance and charm, reaching into the core of an England that is seldom captured in fiction. The book is a stylish path to self-knowledge for those who recognise the weird interzones of contemporary Britain. In a world where existential comedy meets the certainty of death, where the suburbs can be granted their poetry and their sound, a novel has arisen which pulses with a magical sense of freedom. Bag a copy for everybody you love.’
Andrew O’Hagan, author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road“A hallucinatory memoir of the twentieth century and beyond by a time-travelling head, The Trial of Jonah is a book that is truly stranger than fiction. It’s also very moving.” – David Keenan author of This is Memorial Device and Monument Maker
An astonishing work of imagination and mythologising and that’s just the index. I’m just glad I fare better than poor ol’ JG Ballard at the hands of the monstrous Jonah Plantagenet. Spoiler alert: there’s no index
Jon Dasilva Hacienda DJ.‘Mind-bending . . . a cross between HG Wells and HP Lovecraft . . . this creepy puzzler feels thrillingly unkempt ― Metro
A psychedelic trip into a pandimensional heart of darkness…a wildly ambitious book; a heady mix of pulp horror, nature writing gone feral, “phantom ecology” and ruminations on the cycle of life and death. Sometimes it feels like a bizarro mash-up of Jeff Noon and Robert Macfarlane…certainly one of the more adventurous debuts you’ll read this year.
― SFX Magazine
A massive headf*ck of a novel, a true tangle, a chthonic entity and a classic of New Weird Fiction ― David Keenan
A bold, ambitious and thrilling sci-fi folk horror that explores the ease with which deep ecology strips away all that remains of your humanity ― John Higgs
Fiercely animistic. [The Tangle is] a book that vitally brings eco-horror from the future pages of sci-fi back to the present. ― English Heretic blog
‘A writer of fierce and vivid imagination. The Tangle, like Holdstock’s classic Mythago Wood and Catling’s The Vorrh, taps the deep resonances of the wild wood in the English soul, revering even the stones as living minds, possessed of souls and ancient memories. Visceral stuff from this promising new star of dark fantasy’
Michael Moorcock
The Tangle is the kind of horror-SF hybrid our neurotic age deserves: grotesque as a Hogarth engraving, violent as a comic, and deeply disconcerting ― The Times
