Harvest

<p><b>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now a film adaptation starring Caleb Landry Jones. Jim Crace creates a haunting world in <i>Harvest</i>.</b><br><br><b>‘Extraordinary’ <i>– The Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>‘Inimitably excellent’ – Boyd Tonkin, <i>The Independent</i></b><br><br>As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. A trio of outsiders – two men and a dangerously magnetic woman – arrive on the woodland borders triggering a series of events that will see Walter Thirsk’s village unmade in just seven days: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft.<br><br>But something even darker is at the heart of Walter’s story, and he will be the only man left to tell it . . .<br><br><b>‘Terrible, lyrical beauty that is nothing like any other novel I have ever read’ – <i>Spectator</i></b><br><br><b>‘He is, quite simply, one of the great writers of our time’ – Colum McCann</b><br><br><b>Winner of the James Tait Black Prize</b><br><b>Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</b><br><br><b>Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.</b></p>