An event to celebrate the publication of Tony White’s new novel, Phantom at the Feast. All welcome.

Join us for readings from and discussion about Tony White’s seventh novel Phantom at the Feast (No Exit Press). Tony will be in conversation with Dr Will Montgomery of Royal Holloway University of London, and there will be time for a Q&A.

Police stations are outdated and AIs make more efficient detectives, or so says a UK Home Office determined to make cuts. When the sole witness in a trafficking case is discovered brutally murdered, a brass horseshoe forced between his teeth, DS King is summoned back to London and into a labyrinth of memory, music, and political unrest.

This is the first public event for Tony White’s latest novel Phantom at the Feast, published by No Exit Press on 18 June 2026. Phantom at the Feast is the follow up to Tony White’s critically acclaimed The Fountain in the Forest (2018) which will be reissued by No Exit Press in December 2026.

Praise for The Fountain in the Forest:

• ‘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 ‘Book of the Day’
• ‘a gripping police procedural… impeccably Oulipian in conception and execution.’ The TLS
• ‘Fantastic . . . A cross between Derek Raymond and Raymond Queneau.’ Backlisted Podcast

Tony White is the author of novels including Foxy-T (Faber, 2003). A former writer in residence at the Science Museum, and UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and Creative Entrepreneur in Residence at King’s College London, Tony has reviewed for the Guardian, Irish Times and The Idler. He is editor and publisher of the artists’ book series Piece of Paper Press founded in 1994, examples of which are in collections including UCL Library Small Press Collections. Tony White is currently the RLF Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, and Associate Lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck.

Will Montgomery is Associate Professor Modernist and Contemporary poetry and poetics at Royal Holloway, where he teaches on the Poetic Practice strand of the Creative Writing MA. He has authored monographs on the poetry of Susan Howe and short-form US poetry, and has co-edited essay collections on the poetry of Frank O’Hara and on field recording and literature.