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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew McMillanTheme:Demographic Orientation/Rural, Demographic Orientation/Small Town, Sex & Gender/Gay, Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:9/29/2026Pages:192
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Canongate BooksISBN-13:9781838858957ISBN-10:1838858954UPC:9781838858957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Political, Literary, LGBTQ+Book Topic:GaySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC6Y7ATEY2

The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern England

AN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024
AN i-D FICTION HIGHLIGHT TO BE EXCITED FOR IN 2024
AN INDEPENDENT AND LUNATE JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A deeply felt and rich enactment of love, loneliness and personal triumph that leaves an indelible mark on modern Queer life' OCEAN VUONG

The town was once a hub of industry. A place where men toiled underground in darkness, picking and shovelling in the dust and the sleck. It was dangerous and back-breaking work but it meant something. Once, the town provided, it was important; it had purpose. But what is it now?

Brothers Alex and Brian have spent their whole life in the town where their father lived and his father, too. Now in his middle age and still reeling from the collapse of his personal life, Alex must reckon with a part of his identity he has long tried to conceal. His only child Simon has no memory of the mines. Now in his twenties and working in a call centre, he derives passion from his side hustle in sex work and his weekly drag gigs.

Set across three generations of South Yorkshire mining family, Andrew McMillan's magnificent debut novel is a lament for a lost way of life as well as a celebration of resilience and the possibility for change.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Canongate BooksISBN-13:9781838858957ISBN-10:1838858954UPC:9781838858957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Political, Literary, LGBTQ+Book Topic:GaySize:8.50 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC6Y7ATEY2

Andrew McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1988. His debut collection of poetry, physical, was 'the sort of once-in-a-generation debut that causes everyone to sit up and take notice' according to Sarah Crown. physical was the only poetry book to ever win the Guardian First Book Award; it was also awarded a Somerset Maugham award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and in 2019 was voted as one of the Top 25 Poetry Books of the Past 25 Years by the Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime, won the inaugural Polari Prize. A third collection, pandemonium, was published in 2021 and in 2022 he co-edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems, which was shortlisted in the British Book Awards. He is professor of contemporary writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

@AMcMillanPoet andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk


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