The Devil’s Garden tells the story of the scientist Dr Forle, living on an Amazon River station deep in the South American jungle.

He and his international crew of colleagues are working with remote tribes, studying large clearings made by ants in the forest, which they call ‘devil’s gardens’.

[1] In an interview,[1] he states that the novel emulates the Amazonian river ‘getting deeper and darker and fuller.’ He has also said that 'it is about religion and science, about the ancient and the modern, about love and exploitation, about the clash between the individual and the powerful opposing forces that seek to determine our future'.

[2] The book has been described as Conradian fable for our time,[3] but Docx has said elsewhere that his main interests were anthropological - and that the novel is about precisely the opposite: that there is nowhere left on the globe to hide and that the possibility of a society or individual living beyond the reaches of contemporary culture has all but disappeared.

[5] The Independent on Sunday noted that 'This poisoned Eden throbs with intensity and delivers a gut punch that leaves you reeling'.