Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves.

Daniel is a comedian. But he has begun to detest mankind. Despite this, he is unable to stop himself believing in love. A thousand years on, war, earthquakes and others have decimated the earth and Daniel lives alone in a secure compound. Daniel attempts t

Michel is a civil-servant, an account manager at the Ministry of Culture. When his father is murdered and he comes into some money, Michel takes leave of absence to go on a package tour to Thailand. Relieved to get away, he is nonetheless infuriated by the shallow hypocrisy and mediocrity of his fellow travellers.

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of the celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq.

2022, France. Islamic law comes into force throughout the country and, for one spiritually barren academic, life is set on a new course. This devastating satire is also a profound and painfully sharp meditation on isolation, faith and love. SUBMISSION is a startling new work by Michel Houellebecq, the bestselling author of ATOMISED and one of the most provocative novelists of today.