{"product_id":"john-of-john-1","title":"John of John","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘You finish the novel feeling emotionally enriched and slightly bereft at leaving its characters behind’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e–\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This book is special’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e– Colm Tóibín\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Passionate, liberating, and gorgeous’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e– Min Jin Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Brilliant and rare’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e– Ann Patchett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A masterpiece’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e– Elaine Feeney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A fierce, glorious sting of a novel’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e– Lauren Groff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Stuart’s most consummate work of literature to date’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Intimate yet epic in scale . . . enthralling’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Miraculous . . . This beautiful story of literal and metaphorical homecoming is wholly satisfying’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A capacious, ambitious novel, both swiftly readable and genuinely profound’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A superb example of what a novel can do . . . I'd give him another Booker right away’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Told in beautiful, thoughtful prose that transports readers to lives and locales they will never know’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Douglas Stuart at his best . . . Reader, hold this masterpiece in your hands and feel yourself forever changed’ –\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57437323821429,"sku":"978-1035086955tipin","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/RMCopyofBOOKSforWEBSITEDONOTDELETE_44.png?v=1785412228","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.com\/products\/john-of-john-1","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}