John of John

Name: John of John
ISBN: 9781035086955

by Douglas Stuart

Booker · 2026 · Longlist

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PicadorMay 21, 2026Literary Fiction416 pagesISBN 9781035086955

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Booker Prize	2026	Longlist	“This excavation of family, violence and shame is woven through with beautiful imagistic detail, and – unexpectedly – shades of hope. We loved the rich, textural detail of the story.”

About This Book

Out of money, art graduate John-Calum MacLeod returns to the Isle of Harris and to the two poles of his childhood: his devout Presbyterian father John, a sheep farmer and deacon, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella. An excavation of family, violence, and shame woven through with unexpected hope.

About the Author

Douglas StuartScottish

Douglas Stuart was born on 31 May 1976 in Sighthill, Glasgow, Scotland, the youngest of three siblings. Raised in poverty amid Thatcher-era economic decline, his single mother battled alcoholism and died when he was sixteen. He earned a bachelor's from the Scottish College of Textiles and a master's from London's Royal College of Art. Read more →