A Working Title I Want to Change : a Novel

Author: Saul Leslie

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 17 March 2026 by Watkins Media Limited (Repeater Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 250 pages
197 x 130 x 29 | 328g

In the labyrinth of Tesco’s flagship supermarket, precariously employed workers search for dignity at the margins of late-capitalist London, while a nameless narrator cycles through the discarded nametags of sacked colleagues. Gradually absorbing their stories, he drifts from shifts at the superstore to temporary accommodation, as imminent homelessness threatens his intellectual hopes. Petty triumphs, quiet humiliations, and fleeting acts of kindness become markers of resistance to the wider collapse beyond the store’s walls.

A Working Title I Want to Change explores the dizzyingly over-lit world of austerity Britain, revealing consumerism’s rituals and illusions in all their comedy and menace.