Tony White Phantom at the Feast Book Launch (No Exit Press)

Join us for the launch of Tony White’s new novel Phantom at the Feast, published by No Exit Press, an imprint of Bedford Square Publishers – the follow-up to White’s acclaimed The Fountain in the Forest.

When the sole witness in a trafficking case is discovered brutally murdered, a brass horseshoe forced between his teeth, Detective Sergeant Rex King is summoned back to London and into a labyrinth of memory, music, and political unrest. From The Clash’s ragged 1985 busking tour to the fractured legacy of the anti-nuclear movement, Rex follows threads that tug uncomfortably at his own history – echoes he can’t quite place, shadows that refuse to settle. When Rex’s boss, DCI ‘Lollo’ Lawrence, suddenly disappears, and long-buried papers from the Miners’ Strike surface, he must work alongside a sharp young detective, a seasoned former soul boy, and the National Crime Agency’s unsettlingly brilliant new AI. Yet the deeper he travels, the more he finds the investigation folding back on him: professional loyalties strained, personal relationships tested, and accusations from his undercover past threatening to unmake him.

‘White is always convivial company … His books are characterised by stylistic innovation, a feeling for place, a love of rogues and rebels.’ Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian

‘Fantastic . . . A cross between Derek Raymond and Raymond Queneau.’ Backlisted Podcast

Tony White, Phantom at the Feast

No Exit Press

978-1-83501-579-7

Publication date: 18 June 2026

Paperback Original, £12.99

6.30–8.30 pm

(Reading, speeches, 7pm)

Free – booking required

For all enquiries, please contact Claudia Bullmore: claudia@bedfordsquarepublishers.co.uk

Tony White is the author of six previous novels, including Foxy-T and The Fountain in the Forest. A former writer in residence at the Science Museum, he has reviewed for the Guardian, The Idler and Irish Times. He is currently RLF Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, and an Associate Lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck. Since 1994, White has edited and published the artists’ book series Piece of Paper Press, which was the subject of an archival exhibition Thirty-one years of Piece of Paper Press: artists’ books, artworks and ephemera, 1994–2025 at Matt’s Gallery in 2025.