Agency by William Gibson

Sunday Times best seller

As well as being favoured by Dominic Cummings, William Gibson is credited with having coined the term “cyberspace” and having envisioned both the internet and virtual reality before either existed. In thios book, Verity is the app-whisperer, and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant. In a post-apocalyptic London a century from now, PR fixer Wilf Netherton is tasked by all-seeing policewoman Ainsley Lowbeer with interfering in the alternative past in which Verity and Eunice exist.