Mostly Hero

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MILKMAN
Still eighty-two, still with fifty-seven bullets in her, still dying, and with a blood-trail resembling a post-structuralist anti-principle of a traditional abstracted countercomposition, she was softly cursing and willing herself not to die.

Follow Hero the superhero as he saves the world from villains and falls in love with a femme fatale named Femme Fatale.
Written by Anna Burns before she completed her dazzling Booker-winning novel Milkman, Mostly Hero is a hilarious, witty, hell-raising romp through a world of superheroes.

"This crazy little nugget from the winner of the Booker prize for Milkman is a brutal satire of the superhero phenomenon. It ridicules the mindlessness of violence and the glorification of the same in popular culture, and that with a touch of feminism."***** reader review
"Out of the ordinary, extraordinary. This is unlike anything." ***** reader review
"SOOOO WEIRD. SOOOO CRAZY. SOOOO BRILLIANT" ***** reader review

About the author

Anna Burns was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two previous novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has, to date, won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and the Rathbone's Folio Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Burns
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.05.2026
• EAN: 9780571399727
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39972-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Science Fiction / Humorous, FICTION / Superheroes, Humorous fiction, Satirical fiction and parodies, Superhero stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre