John of John : The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

OUR JUNE BOOKCLUB BOOK: In celebration of the inaugural Tring Pride this June, we are proud to feature Douglas Stuart’s stunning new novel. Order your copy below to join our exclusive Q&A with the author! 🏳️‍🌈

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO.

‘You finish the novel feeling emotionally enriched and slightly bereft at leaving its characters behind’ – The Sunday Times

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades. While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved.

As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.

‘Stuart’s most consummate work of literature to date’ – Observer

Order from Our Bookshop (in the shop or though this website) and join Our Bookclub meeting. The author Douglas Stuart will be joining the meeting on screen to answer our questions about the book.